Reckoning from Vancouver, British Columbia...by Bill Bonner
Oh my, the young man accused of killing 93 people in Norway, isn't the man Homeland Security and the Pentagon hoped for.
But we'll come back to that...first the world of finance.
Republicans and Democrats are under pressure. They need to keep up appearances. Both sides want to make a debt deal – so as to give the impression that US authorities know what they are doing and are in control of the situation.
Undoubtedly, it will be like the European deal...too little and too late to make any real difference.
Meanwhile, stocks fell 43 points on the Dow on Friday; no big deal, in other words. Bonds went up – showing that investors aren't particularly concerned about the debt ceiling problem. And gold rose back over $1,600.
So, let's move on...back to the future of the US empire.
As an empire matures, every opportunity to expand becomes a matter of national defense. (In America, the word "empire" is never mentioned.)
Ever since 9/11 "defense" industries have been peddling the idea that Islamic terrorism is a threat to national security. Their spirits must have lifted when they first heard the news from Oslo over the weekend. Finally, after 6 years of relative quiet, here comes more evidence that there really are some Islamic terrorists!
But now we discover; he isn't an Islamic terrorist at all. He's a Christian terrorist; he thinks he's defending Christendom from the Islamic Threat.
Oh la la...the valiant knights of the military industrial complex now have Christian terrorists on the right...and Islamic terrorists on the left. Or vice versa.
But wait, their story was that they were defending the USA and its empire against Muslim bad guys who want to destroy it. Are they also defending the empire against Christian bad guys who want to protect it?
Ay yi yi...what a tangled web we weave...
And more thoughts...
"Bill, you're telling only a part of the story. I mean, the story of how America became an empire and what it means."
The speaker was a weekend visitor, from Washington, DC, a man active in conservative politics.
"First, winning the Cold War was the biggest setback of our lifetimes. There was probably nothing we could do about it, but it unleashed 3 billion people to compete against us.
"But then, the US was still in a position to protect itself. We were providing a protective umbrella to Europe and Japan. Basically, we guaranteed their safety...with our nuclear arms. We also guaranteed their access to oil.
"We did this without getting anything in return. When the Europeans proposed to put up an airplane company that could compete with Boeing, we were still in a position to stop it. But the US was told that unless it went along with the Airbus program, NATO would be a dead issue. NATO was the means for the US to project power in Europe. Rather than let the empire go, the US gave up much of its aircraft industry.
"Same thing in Japan...and now in China. In order to finance the empire's spending, the US had to give up its own manufacturing industry. That was the imperial bargain. 'We'll protect you and let you sell stuff to us...but you have to finance our empire.'"
"Are you saying the US shouldn't allow foreign cars or foreign-made planes to be sold in the US," we asked?
"No, I'm just saying that an empire is not a free market enterprise. It makes deals. The deals it made in Europe and Asia doomed its own manufacturers to failure and doomed its middle classes to poverty.
"All I'm saying is that this is part of the story of the empire. Yes, the zombies have taken over, as you put it. But it's really an empire story. That's the important part.
"It didn't matter who was in the White House, Republican or Democrat. Liberal or conservative. They all did the same thing. They followed the imperial agenda. There were stupid leaders, such as George W. Bush. And there were smart leaders, such as Barack Obama. The stupid ones liked sending troops to Iraq, for example, and sent them. The smart ones didn't like sending troops, but they sent them too. They all do the same thing. Because their real mission – whether they realize it or not – is to build out the empire.
"All of them do what they need to do. As you say, 'people come to think what they need to think when they need to think it.'
"And now the conservatives are faced with an historic choice. I've attended those Tea Party meetings and the meetings of CPAC, the conservative political action committees. There are two currents of thought.
"But first you have to understand what has happened in the conservative movement. The Tea Party has shaken things up. But it's just beginning. And the Tea Partiers don't quite know what they think. Their reactions are emotion, not well thought out. Not always coherent or logical.
"There are the principled, old conservatives – people like Ron Paul, who are consistently against expanding the power of government and consistently in favor of reducing the cost of it. And there are the new conservatives, much of the religious right, and the neo cons.
"Both groups say they are in favor of the same things – basically cutting big government down to size. But conservatives have to decide what this means. The obvious and fastest way to balance the federal budget is to renounce the imperial agenda. It costs about $1.2 trillion a year to maintain troops all over the globe, to run Homeland Security, participate in 3 wars...and all the other things that go into being an empire. Congress and the president could simply announce that they no longer believed the empire was a worthwhile project. Presto, the budget would be balanced. Problem solved.
"And I'm not talking about undermining national defense. I'm just talking about eliminating spending on things that actually make the nation less safe. That's what an empire does. By involving itself in everyone else's business, it makes enemies.
"I know a gal who lives part of the year in Morocco. She told me that she had a friend who is tall, with curly blond hair. Apparently, he's always getting attacked on the streets because people think he's an American.
"And it's no wonder. Bush didn't tell Americans the truth about the terrorists. They were over here because we were over there, not the other way around. I mean, we're not over there because they were over here.
"And when I talk about cutting the Pentagon budget and the costs of running an empire, I'm just talking about the part of the defense and other budgets that have nothing really to do with providing real security. They're just about imposing US authority on the rest of the world.
"There's always a trade off. It's either politics or markets. You see that in the business world too. There are people who want control. And there are people who are trying to provide a good service or product at a profit. The politicians in a business care more about controlling things. They'll ruin a business if you let them.
"Either you're letting people work out their own problems...between willing buyers and sellers. Or you're telling them what to do. Politics, especially, imperial politics is all about controlling the rest of the world.
"Trouble is, politics is expensive and unproductive. The more of it you have – either at home or abroad – the poorer you become...until you can no longer afford it. That's the situation we're in now. We're already way beyond the point of no return...the point where the debt depresses growth. It's only a matter of time before we can't go on.
"The real question is whether we do something about it now...bringing our spending in line with our ability to spend...or whether the market forces us to do it. As Ayn Rand said, you can ignore the market. But you can't avoid the consequences of ignoring the market. Now, we're facing the consequences.
"And what I'm proposing is to eliminate the deficit by renouncing the empire. Of course, this would come as a huge shock to the public. They thought the Pentagon was defending them from something. They don't even realize that we have an empire. They have no idea what it costs, what it means, or what might happen if we didn't have one. We've never had that debate. Woodrow Wilson launched the nation directly on the path of empire, but there was never any discussion of it. No debate in Congress was ever held. Instead, every time we went further and further away from real national defense – such as when Wilson sent troops in WWI – it was always justified in defense terms. Even then, we were supposedly 'making the world safe for democracy.'
"But that's just the way it works. Every empire transforms its own expansion into self defense measures. Germany invaded the Sudetenland, and then Poland largely to secure its own frontiers. Japan marched down Southeast Asia to secure its lifeline of resources. Britain conquered half the world to protect its manufactures....and Napoleon invaded Russia to remove the threat on the East.
"The US didn't have any real enemies – after the Soviet Union folded up – so it had to invent this whole terrorism thing. Now, we have our forces all over the Mideast and now North Africa, to protect the USA from terrorism. That's what they say.
"And here's the scary thing. In all the many examples of empires, none...not one...ever backed up. None ever renounced its imperial destiny. None ever thought better of it. Instead, they all went headlong...forward...until they finally got their butts kicked.
"Some people in the Tea Party...and even in the Republican Party...see what has happened. They understand how the nation has become addicted to cheap credit, cheap money, and to expensive imperial adventures. They are afraid that if they don't get control of it now, it will soon be too late.
"And my hope for the nation is that they will be successful. I believe there is hope. I think that if we can make the link clear – between the imperial, big spending, big credit, big government project...and the coming bankruptcy of the nation...we might be able to turn the country around.
"At best, it will be a close run. Because the military is about the only institution in America that people still trust. They don't trust Congress or the banks...or the political parties...or the rich...or the big corporations. And we have no national church, they might trust.
"So, when push comes to shove, the Tea Partiers – like everyone else – are likely to back the military and the empire. There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction; when you're faced with adversity, you back your military, no matter what they're doing. Even when it brings you close to extinction. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the Tea Party get mixed up and hijacked by the neo-cons and the big- government imperialists in the conservative movement.
"Just the other day, I heard Rush Limbaugh make the argument. He said we should give the Pentagon our full support, because it was the only institution we can still believe in. A lot of Tea Partiers feel the same way. They don't make the connection between central planning, big budgets, unlimited credit and the big, imperial agenda.
"So, I know I might lose this fight. The Tea Partiers will probably choose the Empire over the Republic...they'll probably prefer politics to markets. They'll probably back the troops...and let the country go broke. But if I'm going to live in the United States of America I've got to take a stand...I've got to do something. And this is all I can do."
Regards,
Bill Bonner,
for The Daily Reckoning
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On The Idea of America - July 4th
Whiskey & Gunpowder by Gary Gibson July 1, 2011 Geneva, Florida, U.S.A.
The Fourth of July is upon us again and a couple hundred million people in the middle latitudes of the North American continent are going to celebrate the birth of the United States. Most of them assume that this means they'll also be celebrating being American, but that's not necessarily so.
The United States is a political thing, one heir to the typical failings of politics, and the almost imperceptibly slow decay of republican virtue into nanny statism and imperial hubris.
America, however, is something different. It is not the same thing as the United States that seek to overlay it and to smother it. America is an idea that precedes the U.S. and, we like to believe, both transcends the nation-state and will outlive it.
As Thomas Paine says:
"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
The new version of The Idea Of America: What It Was and How It Was Lost collects in one volume the greatest essays about what America means. It is something undeniably anarchist, resolutely independent and demanding of personal liberty no matter the cost in inconvenience and even in the face of mortal danger.
As stated before America precedes the U.S., but from the founding of the political version of the nation, a dozen generations have sequentially sacrificed more liberty, more of the uniquely American independence for perceived expedience, convenience and security.
"The desire for material ease long ago vanquished the spirit of '76," writes American Anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre.
The Idea Of America co-editor Bill Bonner adds, "People in the land of the free and the home of the brave will go along with almost anything. They are perfectly willing to give up almost every trace of freedom as long as they have security and economic comfort."
I don't know many books that can hook the reader so powerfully just with the introduction, but that is exactly what The Idea of America does.
Co-editors Bill Bonner and Pierre Lemieux start out strong. I was actually worried that there would be no way for the book to deliver on the promise offered by such a strong start. I needn't have worried. I mean, really how could you go wrong with Murray Rothbard, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and other such luminaries?
Lemieux's introduction begins the book with a tour of American history that smartly highlights how the forces of liberty have vied with those of state intervention. The book then continues with selections from Murray Rothbard, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Lord Acton. An entire section is devoted to selections from Alexis de Tocqueville. The rest of the book features Jefferson, Franklin, Thoreau, Mencken. This new edition also has selections from Emma Lazarus and Rose Wilder Lane. The book is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice quotes.
Take for example this one from Alexis de Tocqueville defining the totalitarian nanny state, devoid of outright despotism, but destructive nonetheless. From his essay on democratic despotism:
"...[T]he species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world; our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I seek in vain for an expression which will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of it; the old words despotism and tyranny are inappropriate: the thing itself is new, and since I cannot name it, I must attempt to define it.
"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
"...After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
"...I have always thought that servitude of the regular, quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described might be combined more easily than is commonly believed with some of the outward forms of freedom, and that it might even establish itself under the wing of the sovereignty of the people."
Then there's Benjamin Franklin's "To Those Who Would Remove To America", as classic a description of the essence of the true American. Franklin asks of any man would start fresh in America:
"...[W]hat can he do? If he has any useful art, he is welcome; and if he exercises it and behaves well, he will be respected by all that know him; but a mere man of quality, who on that account wants to live upon the public, by some office or salary, will be despised and disregarded. The husbandman is in honor there, and even the mechanic, because their employments are useful."
Franklin also provides a lesson in capitalism, finding a need and filling it and of the economics of early America, what sort of person and skills would flourish in the new country.
In the next essay, the equally inimitable H.L. Mencken puts it so: "All our cities are full of aristocrats whose grandfathers were day laborers, and clerks whose grandfathers were aristocrats."
Ralph Waldo Emerson adds:
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
"Consider what is happening in public finance," Bill Bonner asks of the reader in parting.
"An individual might say, 'This country must stop spending so much money.' But he will not want to give up his own public benefits-his Social Security, his Medicaid, all his government checks. He has no reason to give up his benefits, because it wouldn't make a dent in the problem. It is as if the whole nation had a single credit card. It does not make any sense for a single individual to take himself off the Social Security rolls. Thus, mass institutions have no way to correct their own courses; they must continue down the path to ruin."
It seems like a lost cause. As if things must simply run their course. As if the idea of America must decline and die like everything else.
There's an undeniable tragedy to this Fourth of July. The decay has become too advanced for anyone not in denial to ignore: The foreign entanglements, the innumerable tendrils of state intervention, the advancement of the police state...
As we mark the birth of the Republic this year it has never been easier to think about its death. It's no random republishing that brings this new edition of The Idea of America to us now.
I am going to give away the ending, but I think it's worth it...
Bill Bonner paraphrases Ghandi when he concludes, "America is a very good idea. Somebody ought to try it."
Who can argue with that? This book will certainly make you want to try.
Regards,
Gary Gibson
Managing editor, Whiskey & Gunpowder
On The Idea of America appears on Whiskey & Gunpowder.
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The Fourth of July is upon us again and a couple hundred million people in the middle latitudes of the North American continent are going to celebrate the birth of the United States. Most of them assume that this means they'll also be celebrating being American, but that's not necessarily so.
The United States is a political thing, one heir to the typical failings of politics, and the almost imperceptibly slow decay of republican virtue into nanny statism and imperial hubris.
America, however, is something different. It is not the same thing as the United States that seek to overlay it and to smother it. America is an idea that precedes the U.S. and, we like to believe, both transcends the nation-state and will outlive it.
As Thomas Paine says:
"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
The new version of The Idea Of America: What It Was and How It Was Lost collects in one volume the greatest essays about what America means. It is something undeniably anarchist, resolutely independent and demanding of personal liberty no matter the cost in inconvenience and even in the face of mortal danger.
As stated before America precedes the U.S., but from the founding of the political version of the nation, a dozen generations have sequentially sacrificed more liberty, more of the uniquely American independence for perceived expedience, convenience and security.
"The desire for material ease long ago vanquished the spirit of '76," writes American Anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre.
The Idea Of America co-editor Bill Bonner adds, "People in the land of the free and the home of the brave will go along with almost anything. They are perfectly willing to give up almost every trace of freedom as long as they have security and economic comfort."
I don't know many books that can hook the reader so powerfully just with the introduction, but that is exactly what The Idea of America does.
Co-editors Bill Bonner and Pierre Lemieux start out strong. I was actually worried that there would be no way for the book to deliver on the promise offered by such a strong start. I needn't have worried. I mean, really how could you go wrong with Murray Rothbard, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and other such luminaries?
Lemieux's introduction begins the book with a tour of American history that smartly highlights how the forces of liberty have vied with those of state intervention. The book then continues with selections from Murray Rothbard, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Lord Acton. An entire section is devoted to selections from Alexis de Tocqueville. The rest of the book features Jefferson, Franklin, Thoreau, Mencken. This new edition also has selections from Emma Lazarus and Rose Wilder Lane. The book is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice quotes.
Take for example this one from Alexis de Tocqueville defining the totalitarian nanny state, devoid of outright despotism, but destructive nonetheless. From his essay on democratic despotism:
"...[T]he species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world; our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I seek in vain for an expression which will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of it; the old words despotism and tyranny are inappropriate: the thing itself is new, and since I cannot name it, I must attempt to define it.
"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
"...After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
"...I have always thought that servitude of the regular, quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described might be combined more easily than is commonly believed with some of the outward forms of freedom, and that it might even establish itself under the wing of the sovereignty of the people."
Then there's Benjamin Franklin's "To Those Who Would Remove To America", as classic a description of the essence of the true American. Franklin asks of any man would start fresh in America:
"...[W]hat can he do? If he has any useful art, he is welcome; and if he exercises it and behaves well, he will be respected by all that know him; but a mere man of quality, who on that account wants to live upon the public, by some office or salary, will be despised and disregarded. The husbandman is in honor there, and even the mechanic, because their employments are useful."
Franklin also provides a lesson in capitalism, finding a need and filling it and of the economics of early America, what sort of person and skills would flourish in the new country.
In the next essay, the equally inimitable H.L. Mencken puts it so: "All our cities are full of aristocrats whose grandfathers were day laborers, and clerks whose grandfathers were aristocrats."
Ralph Waldo Emerson adds:
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
"Consider what is happening in public finance," Bill Bonner asks of the reader in parting.
"An individual might say, 'This country must stop spending so much money.' But he will not want to give up his own public benefits-his Social Security, his Medicaid, all his government checks. He has no reason to give up his benefits, because it wouldn't make a dent in the problem. It is as if the whole nation had a single credit card. It does not make any sense for a single individual to take himself off the Social Security rolls. Thus, mass institutions have no way to correct their own courses; they must continue down the path to ruin."
It seems like a lost cause. As if things must simply run their course. As if the idea of America must decline and die like everything else.
There's an undeniable tragedy to this Fourth of July. The decay has become too advanced for anyone not in denial to ignore: The foreign entanglements, the innumerable tendrils of state intervention, the advancement of the police state...
As we mark the birth of the Republic this year it has never been easier to think about its death. It's no random republishing that brings this new edition of The Idea of America to us now.
I am going to give away the ending, but I think it's worth it...
Bill Bonner paraphrases Ghandi when he concludes, "America is a very good idea. Somebody ought to try it."
Who can argue with that? This book will certainly make you want to try.
Regards,
Gary Gibson
Managing editor, Whiskey & Gunpowder
On The Idea of America appears on Whiskey & Gunpowder.
P.S. We now have the new version of The Idea of America: What It Was and How It Was Lost in stock!
Click here to get your copy.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
The Gospel of "Saint" Ambrose, part two from "The Devil's Dictionary"
Whiskey & Gunpowder by Jim Amrhein July 20, 2011 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
For now we direct your attention to the second installment of Jim Amrhein's review of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. Read on below...
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
In the first installment of this two-part series, I entertained you - quite fittingly, I thought, for its 100th anniversary - with the acerbic hilarity of some of the more state-skewering entries from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary...
To me, many of these "definitions" are actually closer to being truly definitive of their corresponding terms than anything you'd find in an actual dictionary.
For instance, the latest version of the online dictionary I use most often defines "cynic" principally as:
Cynic (noun): A person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons...
However, to my way of thinking, this "objective" definition falls far short of the clinical (or cynical) reality.
Evidence abounds in government, the markets, medicine, the courts, religion, the media, sports, education, marriage, friendships, and everywhere else of rampant selfishness. By and large, people really are motivated by self-interest - it's central to our survival, bred into our very DNA.
Through the lens of the real, Bierce's definition of "cynic" is the more accurate one:
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be...
That's because his definition (which includes himself as a prototypical example) speaks not to whether people are selfish or not - but to how a society wholly comprised of selfish people regard those who point out their hypocrisy...
According to Bierce, a cynic is one who's held in contempt by society (a blackguard) for seeing it as it really is: A corrupt place ruled by the self-interested.
Like I said, dead-nuts accurate under a thin veil of humor...
Just like his Devil's Dictionary take on other institutions fundamental to a "civilized" society. Things like schooling:
ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.
EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
And medicine - a deserving target if there ever was one...
FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Let's not forget morality and religion - those sacred cows few ever deign to joust with in print...
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor.
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
(I suppose now is the time to add the disclaimer: The views of this column are not necessarily the views of Whiskey & Gunpowder, its publishers, contributors, etc. Although some - like Bierce's thoughts on money, commerce and business - no doubt are, to one degree or another...)
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.
(Are you paying attention, Goldman-Sachs?)
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.
INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
LABOR, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke.
Some of Bierce's most hilariously devilish "definitions" apply to that hallowed ground, the law...
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
(Because like almost any of the lawyers in Congress can tell you, one must know the law if one is to break it to his own benefit.)
LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
But for all of his venom loosed on society's institutions in The Devil's Dictionary, Bierce saves some of the most potent for everyday life and relationships. I won't list any of them here, but they're pricelessly vicious and undeniably true...
If you're a fan of the ugly truth and timeless, sardonic wit, you simply must pick up a copy of The Devil's Dictionary for yourself - and for each of your like-minded friends. I'm fortunate enough to have the 2004 edition illustrated by the one-of-a-kind Ralph Steadman (of Hunter S. Thompson fame), but there are others out there.
However, by now you must be wondering why anyone would want to subject himself to the miserable, "nothing matters" vision of Ambrose Bierce anyway...
There's a very good reason, and it's this: If more of us were sharp-eyed, acid-tongued, outspoken cynics instead of rose-colored-glasses-wearing, social media addicted Kool-Aid gulpers, America might not be as screwed as she is right now.
The incredible hubris and hypocrisy in our government got that way over the last 200 years because we bought into the vaunted notion that they were doing what they did "for the people"...
Instead of for themselves - which is human nature, like it or not.
We let things like debt spending, entitlements, welfare programs, lax border security, and endless regulation get the better of our wallets, property, and rights because we believed it when our leaders told us they were "doing it all for us"...While they feathered their own nests and saddled America's children with the bill.
In other words, if more of us had been cynics like Ambrose Bierce - and as such, more keenly able to spot the egregious self-interest of those we've elected - we could have done more to stop the damage they've done to our republic.
Bierce himself single-handedly defeated one of the most shamelessly corrupt bills ever put before Congress, in fact. It was 1896 when advocates for numerous railroad giants slipped a bill in front of Congress without public notice or hearings...
The nature of that bill: An exemption on repayment of tens of millions of dollars borrowed from the U.S. government for the construction of the transcontinental railway. Dispatched by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Bierce traveled to Washington, investigated the deal, and penned a series of such scathing editorials on the subject that the plot was exposed and the bill roundly defeated.
We forget, we Americans, what power we wield. Not just with our pens - but with our dollars, our votes, our choices, and our passion.
And the reason we forget is that we're all hopeless deceived, distracted, deluded, or doped-up to be able to clearly see when others are acting egregiously in their own self-interest in dire conflict with our own...
Ambrose Bierce and his Devil's Dictionary remind us of the need to be more cynical for the sake of our own survival - and he does it better than anyone else can, or ever has. And the price he paid for it in life was surely one of loneliness. From the Dictionary:
FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
I, for one, salute Ambrose Bierce as friend, wherever he is. His disappearance at age 71 remains a mystery.
My only hope is that however he went, it was doing something for himself - in his own interest - rather than in trying to add to the incredible service he rendered to this nation and the world with the simple, cynical truth.
Very Truly Yours,
Jim Amrhein
P.S. Thanks again, Whiskey-ers, for the chance to spend some time and share some thoughts with you all once again. I hope you've enjoyed my fond look back at one of history's greatest polemicists. And I look forward to keeping you abreast of the exciting goings-on at Agora Financial's "Fight or Flight" Wealth Symposium in Vancouver, the last week of July. Talk to you then... J.A.
For now we direct your attention to the second installment of Jim Amrhein's review of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. Read on below...
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
In the first installment of this two-part series, I entertained you - quite fittingly, I thought, for its 100th anniversary - with the acerbic hilarity of some of the more state-skewering entries from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary...
To me, many of these "definitions" are actually closer to being truly definitive of their corresponding terms than anything you'd find in an actual dictionary.
For instance, the latest version of the online dictionary I use most often defines "cynic" principally as:
Cynic (noun): A person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons...
However, to my way of thinking, this "objective" definition falls far short of the clinical (or cynical) reality.
Evidence abounds in government, the markets, medicine, the courts, religion, the media, sports, education, marriage, friendships, and everywhere else of rampant selfishness. By and large, people really are motivated by self-interest - it's central to our survival, bred into our very DNA.
Through the lens of the real, Bierce's definition of "cynic" is the more accurate one:
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be...
That's because his definition (which includes himself as a prototypical example) speaks not to whether people are selfish or not - but to how a society wholly comprised of selfish people regard those who point out their hypocrisy...
According to Bierce, a cynic is one who's held in contempt by society (a blackguard) for seeing it as it really is: A corrupt place ruled by the self-interested.
Like I said, dead-nuts accurate under a thin veil of humor...
Just like his Devil's Dictionary take on other institutions fundamental to a "civilized" society. Things like schooling:
ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.
EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
And medicine - a deserving target if there ever was one...
FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Let's not forget morality and religion - those sacred cows few ever deign to joust with in print...
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
RESPONSIBILITY, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor.
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
(I suppose now is the time to add the disclaimer: The views of this column are not necessarily the views of Whiskey & Gunpowder, its publishers, contributors, etc. Although some - like Bierce's thoughts on money, commerce and business - no doubt are, to one degree or another...)
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.
(Are you paying attention, Goldman-Sachs?)
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth.
INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
LABOR, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless.
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke.
Some of Bierce's most hilariously devilish "definitions" apply to that hallowed ground, the law...
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
(Because like almost any of the lawyers in Congress can tell you, one must know the law if one is to break it to his own benefit.)
LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
RETALIATION, n. The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
But for all of his venom loosed on society's institutions in The Devil's Dictionary, Bierce saves some of the most potent for everyday life and relationships. I won't list any of them here, but they're pricelessly vicious and undeniably true...
If you're a fan of the ugly truth and timeless, sardonic wit, you simply must pick up a copy of The Devil's Dictionary for yourself - and for each of your like-minded friends. I'm fortunate enough to have the 2004 edition illustrated by the one-of-a-kind Ralph Steadman (of Hunter S. Thompson fame), but there are others out there.
However, by now you must be wondering why anyone would want to subject himself to the miserable, "nothing matters" vision of Ambrose Bierce anyway...
There's a very good reason, and it's this: If more of us were sharp-eyed, acid-tongued, outspoken cynics instead of rose-colored-glasses-wearing, social media addicted Kool-Aid gulpers, America might not be as screwed as she is right now.
The incredible hubris and hypocrisy in our government got that way over the last 200 years because we bought into the vaunted notion that they were doing what they did "for the people"...
Instead of for themselves - which is human nature, like it or not.
We let things like debt spending, entitlements, welfare programs, lax border security, and endless regulation get the better of our wallets, property, and rights because we believed it when our leaders told us they were "doing it all for us"...While they feathered their own nests and saddled America's children with the bill.
In other words, if more of us had been cynics like Ambrose Bierce - and as such, more keenly able to spot the egregious self-interest of those we've elected - we could have done more to stop the damage they've done to our republic.
Bierce himself single-handedly defeated one of the most shamelessly corrupt bills ever put before Congress, in fact. It was 1896 when advocates for numerous railroad giants slipped a bill in front of Congress without public notice or hearings...
The nature of that bill: An exemption on repayment of tens of millions of dollars borrowed from the U.S. government for the construction of the transcontinental railway. Dispatched by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Bierce traveled to Washington, investigated the deal, and penned a series of such scathing editorials on the subject that the plot was exposed and the bill roundly defeated.
We forget, we Americans, what power we wield. Not just with our pens - but with our dollars, our votes, our choices, and our passion.
And the reason we forget is that we're all hopeless deceived, distracted, deluded, or doped-up to be able to clearly see when others are acting egregiously in their own self-interest in dire conflict with our own...
Ambrose Bierce and his Devil's Dictionary remind us of the need to be more cynical for the sake of our own survival - and he does it better than anyone else can, or ever has. And the price he paid for it in life was surely one of loneliness. From the Dictionary:
FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
I, for one, salute Ambrose Bierce as friend, wherever he is. His disappearance at age 71 remains a mystery.
My only hope is that however he went, it was doing something for himself - in his own interest - rather than in trying to add to the incredible service he rendered to this nation and the world with the simple, cynical truth.
Very Truly Yours,
Jim Amrhein
P.S. Thanks again, Whiskey-ers, for the chance to spend some time and share some thoughts with you all once again. I hope you've enjoyed my fond look back at one of history's greatest polemicists. And I look forward to keeping you abreast of the exciting goings-on at Agora Financial's "Fight or Flight" Wealth Symposium in Vancouver, the last week of July. Talk to you then... J.A.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Stans Energy Provides Updates for Kutessay II Mine, Aktyuz Ore Field and Kashka Rare Earth Processing Plant
1 days 20 hours 44 minutes ago
Stans Energy announced the following update on the progress of the exploration and development activities at its Kutessay II and Kutessay III sites and the Aktyuz Orefield and at the company's Kashka Rare Earth Processing Facility.
In a release, the Company noted Stans Energy's feasibility study is scheduled for completion by end of Q4 2011. The feasibility studies will be conducted under the guidance of VNIIHT - All Russian Research Institute of Chemical Technology.
Valery Kosinkin will be overseeing the metallurgical aspects, while Marat Fazlullin will be supervising the mine design and its various elements.
Asiarudproject Mining Planning-Production Company CJSC has been retained for the mine design and its planning.
Information-Research Centre will be responsible for assays and further development of new milling technologies for Stans Energy. Ludmilla Evteeva, Director General of IRC will be reporting to VNIIHT whilst overseeing the company's laboratory services.
VNIIHT will be guiding the implementation of improvements to historical methods of rare earth extraction and processing of final metals, alloys and oxides.
VNIIHT has developed technologies and technological schemes of individual REE production out of different types of raw materials which were implemented at plants in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Estonia.
Geomin will be responsible for environmental protection management for Stans Energy.
Kazakhstan Mineral Company is a Kazakhstan consulting company that will provide resource estimation services to the company.
Kyrgyz GIIZ OJSC (Kyrgyz Main Institute of Engineering Surveys in Construction), will provide a full complex of geological engineering and topographical surveys for Stans Energy.
Stans Energy Corporation announced that its Mining and Milling initiatives will be overseen by Valery Yakhin.
The Atomic Company Kazatomprom is the national operator, of the Republic of Kazakhstan, for import and export of uranium, rare metals, nuclear fuel for power plants, special equipment and dual-purpose materials.
Additionally, Stans Energy Corporation announced that Vladmir Shubin its Chief Geologist will be responsible for all the geological activities for Stans Energy.
Stans Energy Corporation will focus this year's initial exploration program on extending the mineralization to depth on Kutessay II to increase to size of the Measured and Indicated Reserves as confirmed by the JORC on Kutessay II.
Stans Energy Corporation is a resource development company focused on progressing heavy rare earth properties in areas of the Former Soviet Union.
Read more about Stans Energy
Stans Energy announced the following update on the progress of the exploration and development activities at its Kutessay II and Kutessay III sites and the Aktyuz Orefield and at the company's Kashka Rare Earth Processing Facility.
In a release, the Company noted Stans Energy's feasibility study is scheduled for completion by end of Q4 2011. The feasibility studies will be conducted under the guidance of VNIIHT - All Russian Research Institute of Chemical Technology.
Valery Kosinkin will be overseeing the metallurgical aspects, while Marat Fazlullin will be supervising the mine design and its various elements.
Asiarudproject Mining Planning-Production Company CJSC has been retained for the mine design and its planning.
Information-Research Centre will be responsible for assays and further development of new milling technologies for Stans Energy. Ludmilla Evteeva, Director General of IRC will be reporting to VNIIHT whilst overseeing the company's laboratory services.
VNIIHT will be guiding the implementation of improvements to historical methods of rare earth extraction and processing of final metals, alloys and oxides.
VNIIHT has developed technologies and technological schemes of individual REE production out of different types of raw materials which were implemented at plants in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Estonia.
Geomin will be responsible for environmental protection management for Stans Energy.
Kazakhstan Mineral Company is a Kazakhstan consulting company that will provide resource estimation services to the company.
Kyrgyz GIIZ OJSC (Kyrgyz Main Institute of Engineering Surveys in Construction), will provide a full complex of geological engineering and topographical surveys for Stans Energy.
Stans Energy Corporation announced that its Mining and Milling initiatives will be overseen by Valery Yakhin.
The Atomic Company Kazatomprom is the national operator, of the Republic of Kazakhstan, for import and export of uranium, rare metals, nuclear fuel for power plants, special equipment and dual-purpose materials.
Additionally, Stans Energy Corporation announced that Vladmir Shubin its Chief Geologist will be responsible for all the geological activities for Stans Energy.
Stans Energy Corporation will focus this year's initial exploration program on extending the mineralization to depth on Kutessay II to increase to size of the Measured and Indicated Reserves as confirmed by the JORC on Kutessay II.
Stans Energy Corporation is a resource development company focused on progressing heavy rare earth properties in areas of the Former Soviet Union.
Read more about Stans Energy
Friday, July 8, 2011
"New Silicon": The Next Junior Mining Sector Poised For Lift-Off
By Byron King June 14, 2011
Dear Penny Sleuther,
It's no secret that adding small-cap junior minors to your portfolio can lead to outstanding profits.
Junior miners are, of course, the tiny companies hard at work finding... exploring... and hopefully mining some type of valuable mineral.
Yes, some of these companies will go bust as they burn through cash...
But find the right junior mining company and your life could change forever. In fact, I know of no other plays that have produced such amazing life-changing profits time and time again. Just look at some of recent gains I found through our friends at Casey Research...
Northern Freegold went up 117% in just one month.
Osisko Mining soared 284% in the matter of 6 months.
Or, International Hill climbed 200% in 7 months.
When it comes to junior miners, most investors search only for companies in the precious metal and oil sectors. But today I'd like to introduce you to another "secret" set of miners that are poised for takeoff.
The "New" War That Could Rocket Oil Past $220 in 2011
This shocking conflict could be eight times bigger than the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. It could also be lethal enough to at least DOUBLE the price of gas and oil in 2011...
Bunker down against soaring energy costs with the ONE "safe haven" financial plan that could protect you and pay impressive gains. Watch the full report here.
They're busy at work mining a breakthrough new mineral.
It's a material that China already has on lock down. And, no, I'm not talking about rare earths... oil... or anything like that. Let me show you what I mean...
Recently, two scientists won the Nobel Prize for their pioneering discovery of this breakthrough new material.
They call it the "New Silicon."
It's billed as the wonder material of the 21st century...
With the power to revolutionize micro-electronics... just like the introduction of the silicon chip nearly 50 years ago.
According to the National Science Foundation, it's called this material is the "New Silicon" because it's a leading candidate to replace silicon in applications ranging from high-speed computer chips to biochemical sensors.
This new wonder material could have a major impact on the way we live, work, and play.
Tiny Ottawa Company Discovers "New Silicon" - A $2.5 Billion Breakthrough!
This massive "New Silicon" discovery could literally change the world we live in.
Find out how you could grab your piece of this $2.5 billion breakthrough - right here.
Just like the "old silicon" made our lives easier, richer and safer when it was introduced into thousands of products in the 1960s...
According to PC World, the "New Silicon" has transistor speeds up to 10,000 times faster than the "old silicon." And it's cheaper to produce.
Incredibly, it's only one-atom-thick... 100,000 times smaller than a human hair... yet has the strength, flexibility and electrical conductivity to open up new horizons for high-tech applications, military uses, construction - almost anything you can imagine.
In other words, its potential isn't even fully known or even imagined yet. That's how new and amazing this is...
So what, exactly, is this "New Silicon?"
It's simply graphite - and specifically a new substance called "graphene."
Graphite burns at a very high temperature (3,000 degrees or so), and is therefore useful in numerous electrical and thermo-chemical applications, from arc-lamp electrodes to thin-film heat sinks - such as are contained within your Apple I-Pad.
Quite a bit of natural graphite is consumed in refractory processes, electric arc steelmaking, brake linings, foundry facings and lubricants.
There's also a substance called graphene, which occurs naturally in graphite. Graphene has unique physical properties. It may be one of the strongest substances ever identified. On that score, we're still in the very early innings of understanding the technology that could come out of graphene.
Impressive Gains From the Biggest Story...Ever?
According to a shocking new presentation, we could be on the verge of the biggest wealth advances in history.
Fast sizeable gains could be the norm in this potential wealth wave.
Best part is - the stocks leading this wave are cheap. They're solid. They're sprouting profits now. Start your own chance at huge wealth with this brief presentation - here.
The reality for miners is that good graphite is not that easy to find.
Because of it's rarity and increased usage, graphite prices have more than doubled in recent years. Based on recent quotes, a ton of 97% pure graphite goes for over $2,000. A ton of ultra-pure, 99.99% graphite will set you back over $20,000.
Put simply, I believe graphite prices still have a long way to run.
This is your chance to be on the cutting edge of resource investing. And more importantly, your chance to profit.
Now's the time to add some of the best junior graphite miners to your portfolio. Who knows... you may just make those life-changing gains I showed you earlier.
[The Sleuth's Note: Doing a quick search using Yahoo! Finance, we came across a few minors working with graphite right now. You can start out by taking a closer look at these: Northern Graphite Corp (TSXV: NGC.V), China Carbon Graphite Group INC (OTCBB: CHGI), and GraphTech International LTD (NYSE: GTI ). This high growth industry also comes with risk, of course. Before buying anything, we suggest doing your homework on this one.]
Sincerely,
Byron King
Energy and Mining Correspondent for The Penny Sleuth
P.S. I recently conducted a "world tour" to find the best "New Silicon" company. The company I found just won the rights to a $2.5 billion graphite discovery. Luckily, they're still sitting within my buy range. To learn more on how to get the name and ticker of this play, click here...
"New Silicon": The Next Junior Mining Sector Poised For Lift-Off is featured at Penny Sleuth.
Dear Penny Sleuther,
It's no secret that adding small-cap junior minors to your portfolio can lead to outstanding profits.
Junior miners are, of course, the tiny companies hard at work finding... exploring... and hopefully mining some type of valuable mineral.
Yes, some of these companies will go bust as they burn through cash...
But find the right junior mining company and your life could change forever. In fact, I know of no other plays that have produced such amazing life-changing profits time and time again. Just look at some of recent gains I found through our friends at Casey Research...
Northern Freegold went up 117% in just one month.
Osisko Mining soared 284% in the matter of 6 months.
Or, International Hill climbed 200% in 7 months.
When it comes to junior miners, most investors search only for companies in the precious metal and oil sectors. But today I'd like to introduce you to another "secret" set of miners that are poised for takeoff.
The "New" War That Could Rocket Oil Past $220 in 2011
This shocking conflict could be eight times bigger than the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. It could also be lethal enough to at least DOUBLE the price of gas and oil in 2011...
Bunker down against soaring energy costs with the ONE "safe haven" financial plan that could protect you and pay impressive gains. Watch the full report here.
They're busy at work mining a breakthrough new mineral.
It's a material that China already has on lock down. And, no, I'm not talking about rare earths... oil... or anything like that. Let me show you what I mean...
Recently, two scientists won the Nobel Prize for their pioneering discovery of this breakthrough new material.
They call it the "New Silicon."
It's billed as the wonder material of the 21st century...
With the power to revolutionize micro-electronics... just like the introduction of the silicon chip nearly 50 years ago.
According to the National Science Foundation, it's called this material is the "New Silicon" because it's a leading candidate to replace silicon in applications ranging from high-speed computer chips to biochemical sensors.
This new wonder material could have a major impact on the way we live, work, and play.
Tiny Ottawa Company Discovers "New Silicon" - A $2.5 Billion Breakthrough!
This massive "New Silicon" discovery could literally change the world we live in.
Find out how you could grab your piece of this $2.5 billion breakthrough - right here.
Just like the "old silicon" made our lives easier, richer and safer when it was introduced into thousands of products in the 1960s...
According to PC World, the "New Silicon" has transistor speeds up to 10,000 times faster than the "old silicon." And it's cheaper to produce.
Incredibly, it's only one-atom-thick... 100,000 times smaller than a human hair... yet has the strength, flexibility and electrical conductivity to open up new horizons for high-tech applications, military uses, construction - almost anything you can imagine.
In other words, its potential isn't even fully known or even imagined yet. That's how new and amazing this is...
So what, exactly, is this "New Silicon?"
It's simply graphite - and specifically a new substance called "graphene."
Graphite burns at a very high temperature (3,000 degrees or so), and is therefore useful in numerous electrical and thermo-chemical applications, from arc-lamp electrodes to thin-film heat sinks - such as are contained within your Apple I-Pad.
Quite a bit of natural graphite is consumed in refractory processes, electric arc steelmaking, brake linings, foundry facings and lubricants.
There's also a substance called graphene, which occurs naturally in graphite. Graphene has unique physical properties. It may be one of the strongest substances ever identified. On that score, we're still in the very early innings of understanding the technology that could come out of graphene.
Impressive Gains From the Biggest Story...Ever?
According to a shocking new presentation, we could be on the verge of the biggest wealth advances in history.
Fast sizeable gains could be the norm in this potential wealth wave.
Best part is - the stocks leading this wave are cheap. They're solid. They're sprouting profits now. Start your own chance at huge wealth with this brief presentation - here.
The reality for miners is that good graphite is not that easy to find.
Because of it's rarity and increased usage, graphite prices have more than doubled in recent years. Based on recent quotes, a ton of 97% pure graphite goes for over $2,000. A ton of ultra-pure, 99.99% graphite will set you back over $20,000.
Put simply, I believe graphite prices still have a long way to run.
This is your chance to be on the cutting edge of resource investing. And more importantly, your chance to profit.
Now's the time to add some of the best junior graphite miners to your portfolio. Who knows... you may just make those life-changing gains I showed you earlier.
[The Sleuth's Note: Doing a quick search using Yahoo! Finance, we came across a few minors working with graphite right now. You can start out by taking a closer look at these: Northern Graphite Corp (TSXV: NGC.V), China Carbon Graphite Group INC (OTCBB: CHGI), and GraphTech International LTD (NYSE: GTI ). This high growth industry also comes with risk, of course. Before buying anything, we suggest doing your homework on this one.]
Sincerely,
Byron King
Energy and Mining Correspondent for The Penny Sleuth
P.S. I recently conducted a "world tour" to find the best "New Silicon" company. The company I found just won the rights to a $2.5 billion graphite discovery. Luckily, they're still sitting within my buy range. To learn more on how to get the name and ticker of this play, click here...
"New Silicon": The Next Junior Mining Sector Poised For Lift-Off is featured at Penny Sleuth.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Declare your independence from corporate rule!
What are you doing this July 4th? Need inspiration?
On July 4, 1997, AfD founder Ronnie Dugger and Al Krebs, a former AfD national council member and a great defender of family farms, stood side by side in front of the Liberty Bell. Each read his own version of a "Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule."
Now, nearly 15 years later, we are still trying to keep "the big corporations and the centimillionaires and billionaires" from turning the halls of government into their private clubhouse. And we're still fighting for the real democracy we need.
Take a stand! It's not too late to get together with fellow activists and plan your own July 4 action. Check out the ideas sent in by groups and individuals and posted here on the Move to Amend website. Dress as a Supreme Court "In-Justice." Be as outrageous as the idea that corporations are entitled to the same constitutional rights as real people.
Bring along copies of this "Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule" that Nancy Price, AfD liaison to Move to Amend, helped to write. You can print out a large version or a half-sheet version from the Move to Amend site, or a quarter-sheet version here. Check out more material on our "Tools for Organizing" page.
Thanks for all you do for democracy, and have a great 4th!
Want to keep us growing? Our Facebook page is an easy way to share AfD news with friends and help spread the word about grassroots alternatives to corporate rule.
And consider becoming a member of Alliance for Democracy—join or give online here.
On July 4, 1997, AfD founder Ronnie Dugger and Al Krebs, a former AfD national council member and a great defender of family farms, stood side by side in front of the Liberty Bell. Each read his own version of a "Declaration of Independence from Corporate Rule."
Now, nearly 15 years later, we are still trying to keep "the big corporations and the centimillionaires and billionaires" from turning the halls of government into their private clubhouse. And we're still fighting for the real democracy we need.
Take a stand! It's not too late to get together with fellow activists and plan your own July 4 action. Check out the ideas sent in by groups and individuals and posted here on the Move to Amend website. Dress as a Supreme Court "In-Justice." Be as outrageous as the idea that corporations are entitled to the same constitutional rights as real people.
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Declare Independence from a Corrupt Supreme Court: Impeach Clarence Thomas for taking Millions of $$ from Harlan Crow !
Declare Independence from a Corrupt Supreme Court: Impeach Clarence Thomas for taking Millions of $$ from Harlan Crow !
Our Founding Fathers fought to free the American people from the tyranny of a corrupt government. Hundreds of years later, we still face unethical conduct from the highest positions of power.
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Justice Clarence Thomas has a reputation for some questionable court decisions, but his recent acceptance of "gifts" from conservative benefactors takes his shady behavior beyond the bounds of morality.
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This Fourth of July, declare independence from dishonesty in the Supreme Court.»
Take action link: Impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Justice Clarence Thomas has a reputation for some questionable court decisions, but his recent acceptance of "gifts" from conservative benefactors takes his shady behavior beyond the bounds of morality.
Rich conservative donor Harlan Crow, who finances companies with frequent Supreme Court litigation, has provided Thomas with access to his private yacht and jet, millions in contributions to Thomas's side projects, and a $500,000 donation to Thomas's wife's Tea Party group.
Supreme Court justices are obliged to act in the best interests of the American people. Stand up for your right to an unbiased Supreme Court: Impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomasimpeach Clarence Thomas today!»
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
How the US Could Have “467,000 More Jobs Right Now”
June 14, 2011 9:36 am
With the US’ nine-plus percent unemployment rate — and when no stone should be left unturned in boosting jobs — there’s a huge, and currently untapped, potential job creation engine in tourism.
Since just last April, Brazilians have spent $1.4 billion as tourists, an 83 percent increase from that same time frame the year before. However, it turns out those dollars are largely not being spent in the US. The giant and growing BRIC tourist numbers are not making it to the US to spend their money, and create jobs in the tourism industry, even though they want to, simply because it’s too hard to get in the US.
Time Magazine explains:
“The most lucrative target is Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy. In the past, most Brazilians used to come to the United States looking for work; now they come to spend money and create jobs. The spending would help the U.S. economy tremendously. The American tourism market has recovered slowly since 9-11, but it missed out on a decade of growth, according to Roger Dow, president of the U.S. Travel Association.
“‘We call it the lost decade. If we had just stayed on pace with the rest of the world, we would have generated $606 billion more dollars and have 467,000 more jobs right now,’ Dow said recently at the Pow Wow tourism trade show in San Francisco. The good news, he says, is that the problem is still fixable, and has some inexpensive solutions. By just extending the visa-waiver program to Brazil and Chile, he says, the United States could double visits from those countries in one year and quickly generate $10.3 billion in new tourism revenue while creating 95,100 new American jobs.
“The Travel Association has also proposed a simple, four-point plan for ‘common sense entry reforms’ that Dow says would create an estimated 1.3 million new jobs and bring in $858 billion into the U.S. economy by 2020. He insists the entry reforms, visa waivers and other ‘trusted traveler’ initiatives would not compromise U.S. national security, rather streamline it and let Homeland Security ‘focus more on finding bad guys rather than harassing the good guys.’”
Only 36 nations are on the US’ visa waiver list, and not a single one is in Latin America. Perhaps it’s time to revisit a policy that was designed with the US’ best interest in mind… for the US’ best interest. You can read more details in Time’s coverage on how letting Brazilians in could help the US economy.
Best,
Rocky Vega,
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Author: Daily Reckoning - Rocky Vega Rocky Vega is a regular contributor to The Daily Reckoning. Previously, he was founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update, which he operated from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, and associate publisher of FierceFinance. He specialized in direct marketing at MBI, facilitated MIT Sloan School of Management programs, and has been featured on CBS. Vega graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was on the board of Let’s Go Publications and directed business programs involving McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Harvard Business School faculty. He is also enrolled at the Stockholm School of Economics.
With the US’ nine-plus percent unemployment rate — and when no stone should be left unturned in boosting jobs — there’s a huge, and currently untapped, potential job creation engine in tourism.
Since just last April, Brazilians have spent $1.4 billion as tourists, an 83 percent increase from that same time frame the year before. However, it turns out those dollars are largely not being spent in the US. The giant and growing BRIC tourist numbers are not making it to the US to spend their money, and create jobs in the tourism industry, even though they want to, simply because it’s too hard to get in the US.
Time Magazine explains:
“The most lucrative target is Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy. In the past, most Brazilians used to come to the United States looking for work; now they come to spend money and create jobs. The spending would help the U.S. economy tremendously. The American tourism market has recovered slowly since 9-11, but it missed out on a decade of growth, according to Roger Dow, president of the U.S. Travel Association.
“‘We call it the lost decade. If we had just stayed on pace with the rest of the world, we would have generated $606 billion more dollars and have 467,000 more jobs right now,’ Dow said recently at the Pow Wow tourism trade show in San Francisco. The good news, he says, is that the problem is still fixable, and has some inexpensive solutions. By just extending the visa-waiver program to Brazil and Chile, he says, the United States could double visits from those countries in one year and quickly generate $10.3 billion in new tourism revenue while creating 95,100 new American jobs.
“The Travel Association has also proposed a simple, four-point plan for ‘common sense entry reforms’ that Dow says would create an estimated 1.3 million new jobs and bring in $858 billion into the U.S. economy by 2020. He insists the entry reforms, visa waivers and other ‘trusted traveler’ initiatives would not compromise U.S. national security, rather streamline it and let Homeland Security ‘focus more on finding bad guys rather than harassing the good guys.’”
Only 36 nations are on the US’ visa waiver list, and not a single one is in Latin America. Perhaps it’s time to revisit a policy that was designed with the US’ best interest in mind… for the US’ best interest. You can read more details in Time’s coverage on how letting Brazilians in could help the US economy.
Best,
Rocky Vega,
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Author: Daily Reckoning - Rocky Vega Rocky Vega is a regular contributor to The Daily Reckoning. Previously, he was founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update, which he operated from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, and associate publisher of FierceFinance. He specialized in direct marketing at MBI, facilitated MIT Sloan School of Management programs, and has been featured on CBS. Vega graduated with honors from Harvard University, where he was on the board of Let’s Go Publications and directed business programs involving McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Harvard Business School faculty. He is also enrolled at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
3 Mining Stocks to Hedge China's Rare Earth Policies
by David Fessler at http://seekingalpha.com/author/david-fessler
What do your cell phone, a Euro banknote, superconductors, fiber-optic communications systems and the motor for your car’s windshield wiper all have in common? They (and thousands of other everyday products) contain minute quantities of some of the most obscure chemical elements on the planet.
They’re known as “rare earth metals” or simply “rare earths.”
What’s the big deal about them?
Simply put, trillions of dollars of modern devices wouldn’t be possible without their existence. These “rare earths” are critical elements in many industrial processes and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has identified 17 of them.
Let’s take a quick look at “rare earths” to get an idea of just how pervasive and critically important they are and, of course, how to do something that very few other investors even consider, profit from them…
Little-Known, Rare Earths… Critical to Everyday Life
The term “rare earths” comes from the fact that the minerals that contain these unusual elements were quite rare when first found in Ytterby, Sweden.
And occupying slots 21, 39 and 57-71 in the periodic table of the elements, here are a few of the most commonly used “rare earths”…
* Cerium is the most abundant of the “rare earths.” It’s found in automobile catalytic converters and other pollution control equipment. And it helps to reduce sulfur oxide emissions. It’s also added to diesel fuel to help it burn better.
* Neodymium is used in magnets to make the magnetic field incredibly strong. Cell phones, computers and audio speakers wouldn’t exist without neodymium magnets. And miniature motors wouldn’t be possible at all without it.
* Holmium has the greatest magnetic strength of any element, and is used in medical and dental lasers and nuclear control rods. It’s also a colorant for glass.
* Dysprosium’s magnetic strength properties make it a useful material for certain lasers, fuel injectors for diesel engines, compact discs, and other various data storage applications.
* Thulium is one of the rarest and most expensive of the “rare earth” metals. It has unique properties that make it ideal for laser-based surgical tools.
* Yttrium is primarily utilized to make red phosphors for use in red LED’s and superconductors.
* Europium is a key ingredient in certain types of lasers and is a part of the chemical process to screen for Down’s Syndrome.
* Erbium is a silvery white metal created for use in photographic filters and as a coloring agent in cheap sunglasses and jewelry. It’s also a key element in optical amplifiers widely used in fiber-optic communications systems.
Rare Earth Elements and The China Factor – Again…
While found in relatively high concentrations in the Earth’s crust, until 1948 most of the world’s “rare earth” supply came from sand deposits in Brazil and India.
But in the 1950s, South Africa became the primary source, with U.S. supplies ramping up and continuing well into the late 1980’s.
And while there is still some residual production from those sources, China has stepped to the front of the pack. Its “rare earth” metal production dwarfs everyone else. As you can see on the chart, the Red Dragon is responsible for nearly 95% of the world’s “rare earth” production.
Global Production of Rare Earth Elements
Over the past decade or so, rare metal usage has increased dramatically, which has resulted in a significant strain on supplies. In fact, there’s growing concern that the world may soon face a shortage that could rise to over 40,000 tons annually.
With China using nearly two-thirds of what it produces, it’s naturally keen to protect its own interests. The country is stockpiling its supplies and continuing to reduce annual exports of “rare earths.” The real concern is that within a few years China may decide to keep everything it produces.
As a result of this threat from China, the “rare earth” sector is on fire, with a worldwide flurry of “rare earth” exploration. A mine in California is set to reopen by 2012 and Australia is currently developing the richest “rare earth” deposits outside of China.
Three Mining Stocks for “Rare Earth” Element Speculators
Unfortunately, the Chinese haven’t yet converted the state-owned Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Company into a publicly traded entity, so you can’t buy shares. Moreover, it’s unlikely that it ever will become publicly traded, given the strategic nature of “rare earths” and China’s dwindling reserves.
But many other “rare earth” mining stocks are up over 100% since China announced a change to its “rare earth” export quotas in August. Here are a few to consider…
* Lynas Corporation (OTCBB: LYSCF.PK): The company is behind the big Western Australian “rare earth” deposit at Mt. Weld and has seen its shares soar by 141% over the past six months.
* Avalon Rare Metals (OTCBB: AVARF.PK) and Rare Element Resources (OTCBB: RRLMF.PK) are two other rare element miners that have enjoyed a huge surge over the past six months. Their share prices are up 510% and 596%, respectively.
A note of caution, however: like most junior gold mining stocks, all three are highly speculative. As such, they’re subject to wild price swings.
That said, “rare earths” are in short supply and that means there will be profitable opportunities, as new suppliers emerge and try to offset the dwindling supply from China.
What do your cell phone, a Euro banknote, superconductors, fiber-optic communications systems and the motor for your car’s windshield wiper all have in common? They (and thousands of other everyday products) contain minute quantities of some of the most obscure chemical elements on the planet.
They’re known as “rare earth metals” or simply “rare earths.”
What’s the big deal about them?
Simply put, trillions of dollars of modern devices wouldn’t be possible without their existence. These “rare earths” are critical elements in many industrial processes and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has identified 17 of them.
Let’s take a quick look at “rare earths” to get an idea of just how pervasive and critically important they are and, of course, how to do something that very few other investors even consider, profit from them…
Little-Known, Rare Earths… Critical to Everyday Life
The term “rare earths” comes from the fact that the minerals that contain these unusual elements were quite rare when first found in Ytterby, Sweden.
And occupying slots 21, 39 and 57-71 in the periodic table of the elements, here are a few of the most commonly used “rare earths”…
* Cerium is the most abundant of the “rare earths.” It’s found in automobile catalytic converters and other pollution control equipment. And it helps to reduce sulfur oxide emissions. It’s also added to diesel fuel to help it burn better.
* Neodymium is used in magnets to make the magnetic field incredibly strong. Cell phones, computers and audio speakers wouldn’t exist without neodymium magnets. And miniature motors wouldn’t be possible at all without it.
* Holmium has the greatest magnetic strength of any element, and is used in medical and dental lasers and nuclear control rods. It’s also a colorant for glass.
* Dysprosium’s magnetic strength properties make it a useful material for certain lasers, fuel injectors for diesel engines, compact discs, and other various data storage applications.
* Thulium is one of the rarest and most expensive of the “rare earth” metals. It has unique properties that make it ideal for laser-based surgical tools.
* Yttrium is primarily utilized to make red phosphors for use in red LED’s and superconductors.
* Europium is a key ingredient in certain types of lasers and is a part of the chemical process to screen for Down’s Syndrome.
* Erbium is a silvery white metal created for use in photographic filters and as a coloring agent in cheap sunglasses and jewelry. It’s also a key element in optical amplifiers widely used in fiber-optic communications systems.
Rare Earth Elements and The China Factor – Again…
While found in relatively high concentrations in the Earth’s crust, until 1948 most of the world’s “rare earth” supply came from sand deposits in Brazil and India.
But in the 1950s, South Africa became the primary source, with U.S. supplies ramping up and continuing well into the late 1980’s.
And while there is still some residual production from those sources, China has stepped to the front of the pack. Its “rare earth” metal production dwarfs everyone else. As you can see on the chart, the Red Dragon is responsible for nearly 95% of the world’s “rare earth” production.
Global Production of Rare Earth Elements
Over the past decade or so, rare metal usage has increased dramatically, which has resulted in a significant strain on supplies. In fact, there’s growing concern that the world may soon face a shortage that could rise to over 40,000 tons annually.
With China using nearly two-thirds of what it produces, it’s naturally keen to protect its own interests. The country is stockpiling its supplies and continuing to reduce annual exports of “rare earths.” The real concern is that within a few years China may decide to keep everything it produces.
As a result of this threat from China, the “rare earth” sector is on fire, with a worldwide flurry of “rare earth” exploration. A mine in California is set to reopen by 2012 and Australia is currently developing the richest “rare earth” deposits outside of China.
Three Mining Stocks for “Rare Earth” Element Speculators
Unfortunately, the Chinese haven’t yet converted the state-owned Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Company into a publicly traded entity, so you can’t buy shares. Moreover, it’s unlikely that it ever will become publicly traded, given the strategic nature of “rare earths” and China’s dwindling reserves.
But many other “rare earth” mining stocks are up over 100% since China announced a change to its “rare earth” export quotas in August. Here are a few to consider…
* Lynas Corporation (OTCBB: LYSCF.PK): The company is behind the big Western Australian “rare earth” deposit at Mt. Weld and has seen its shares soar by 141% over the past six months.
* Avalon Rare Metals (OTCBB: AVARF.PK) and Rare Element Resources (OTCBB: RRLMF.PK) are two other rare element miners that have enjoyed a huge surge over the past six months. Their share prices are up 510% and 596%, respectively.
A note of caution, however: like most junior gold mining stocks, all three are highly speculative. As such, they’re subject to wild price swings.
That said, “rare earths” are in short supply and that means there will be profitable opportunities, as new suppliers emerge and try to offset the dwindling supply from China.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Stans Closes Acquisition of KCMP Heavy Rare Earth Processing Complex
TORONTO, May 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Stans Energy Corp. (otcqx:HREEF) ("Stans" or "the Company") has completed its $5,500,000 USD transaction for 100% ownership of the Kyrgyz Chemical Metallurgical Plant (KCMP) Rare Earth Processing Complex and Private Rail Terminal, pursuant to the agreement signed on January 13th, 2011, and further approved by the KCMP shareholders on February 18th, 2011. TSX-V approval for this acquisition was obtained on April 29, 2011. The Complex has been legally renamed, "Kashka REE Plant Ltd. (KRP)".
Stans has hired Mr. Leonid A. Bulyonkov as a Director General of KRP. Mr. Bulyonkov started his engineering career at KCMP. During his career, Mr. Bulyonkov worked closely with the Russian Institutes VNIIHT, VIMS, GIREDMET, and IHHT. He has coordinated large scale rare metal processing operations, while supervising up to 1000 people. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Bulyonkov worked at the Karabalta Ore Mining Complex OJSC in Kyrgyzstan, acting as Chief Engineer -- Deputy Director General. Amongst his peers, Mr. Bulyonkov is recognized as a rare metals and radioactive processing specialist.
Robert Mackay, President and CEO of Stans Energy stated, "The completion of this transaction is a crucial step towards achieving our goal of becoming a near term producer of Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREEs). We are very fortunate to add Mr. L. Bulyonkov to our team as our Head of Operations at KRP and we are confident that he will be able to use his extensive experience to efficiently reestablish a rare earth production line at the Facility. Mr. L Bulyonkov has already initiated plans for design and capacity upgrades to KRP."
KRP Details and Historical Production Flow Sheet
For almost three decades the KCMP Rare Earth Processing Complex produced 80% of the former Soviet Union's RE products. The facilities and the rail terminal were used to produce and transport materials, equipment, chemicals and final product to and from markets when the Kutessay II RE mine was last in production. The Kutessay II mine is now 100% owned by Stans Energy. When the KCMP Rare Earth Processing Plant was last in operation the processing facilities comprised of four individual plants that were part of a much larger industrial complex.
Plant 1
Plant 1 has been decommissioned and will not be used in Stans' new design. This is because much of the past technology used in Plant 1 would not be used today, as newer Sorption technology has proved to be more efficient and less damaging to the environment when removing radioactive materials.
Historically, RE feed from the Kutessay II mine was brought to Plant 1 to be refined into a new, higher grade concentrate. At this stage, the radioactivity was removed through roasting. Modern technologies have made this step redundant.
Plant 2
Plant 2 separated the mixed rare earth solution from Plant 1 and produced light rare earth (LRE) concentrate (La, Ce, Pr, Nd), middle rare earth (MRE) concentrate (Sm, Eu, Gd), heavy rare earth (HRE) concentrate (Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) and Yttrium Oxide (Y2O3). The equipment in Plant 2 is intact, but has been removed from the building and stored at a location 4 km away for security purposes. Stans intends to refurbish and reassemble Plant 2.
Plant 3
Plant 3 separated the MRE and HRE concentrates into final oxides, metals, alloys, nitrate solutions, and final oxides and metals of the LREEs Lanthanum (La) and Cerium (Ce). This Plant was where the various complexing, elutriation, and regeneration solutions were prepared. The process was carried out on a batch system where the conditions in the ion exchange columns (linear flow, solution, complexing, elutriating solution concentration solution, etc.) were specific for each REE. The Rare Earths were then precipitated as the oxalate (carbonate), filtered and washed and then dried and calcined to rare earth oxide (REO). The RE metal section involved the production of metals from the REOs through various electrical, induction and arc furnaces.
The Soviets never used Plant 3 to its full capacity as uses for HREEs were limited between 1965 and 1990. In the late 80s, the Soviets initiated plans for the Plant's expansion to process 3 to 4 times the amount at which it had previously operated. The industrial building expansion was completed when the Plant ended operations in 1991. Some new equipment was delivered to and stored on site but this equipment has not yet been installed.
The Plant continued to process small amounts of remaining HRE concentrate into final metals up until 2009. The last of its HREE concentrate and final products were sold in 2010. Plant 3 is in good working condition.
Plant 4
Plant 4 separated light rare earth concentrate from Plant 2 into individual rare earth oxides. Like Plant 2, much of the equipment from Plant 4 was removed and stored at a secure location. A feasibility study will determine whether Stans Energy will produce and sell light rare earth concentrate derived from Plant 2, or reassemble Plant 4 to produce final oxides.
Rail Terminal
The newly purchased rail terminal connects to the Central Asian Rail Network, which connects to Russia and all countries in Asia including China, Korea, and by ferry to Japan. The purchase of the Rail Terminal includes a gantry crane, two warehouses, two offices, and a weigh station. The land purchased with the rail terminal amounts to 143,500 m(2). The rail terminal is roughly 15 km from the KMCP Processing Plants by paved road, and is roughly 35 km away from the Kutessay II mine by paved road.
Equipment Inventory and Industrial Space
In an independent assessment of the equipment, it was determined that 97% of the equipment purchased which had been previously used for processing rare earths were in either good, or satisfactory operating condition, and only 3% required repair. Stans has published a full list of the inventory included in the purchase and can be found at www.stansenergy.com/rare-earth-processing/ . The total industrial space in Plants 2 and 3 totals 21,812 m(2).
Capacity Old & New
Previously, the entire REE processing facility operated at approximately 500 mt/annum of final rare earth product. During its time in operation, its capacity varied depending on which products were needed and at what purities. 120 different final rare earth products were produced, including oxides, metals and alloys of all lanthanides with purities up to 99.99%. In the late 80s, the Soviets initiated plans to expand the operating capacity to 1500 mt, but never finished the expansion. A feasibility study will determine the optimal scale at which to bring Kutessay II back into production.
Stans Energy has engaged the Russian Institutes that initially designed and built KCMP to help redesign and refurbish the Facilities to create a new and more efficient source of rare earth supply. New technologies and solvents that were unavailable during the Soviet era will be tested in an effort to further improve the Plant's efficiency.
SOURCE: Stans Energy Corp.
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Stans has hired Mr. Leonid A. Bulyonkov as a Director General of KRP. Mr. Bulyonkov started his engineering career at KCMP. During his career, Mr. Bulyonkov worked closely with the Russian Institutes VNIIHT, VIMS, GIREDMET, and IHHT. He has coordinated large scale rare metal processing operations, while supervising up to 1000 people. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Bulyonkov worked at the Karabalta Ore Mining Complex OJSC in Kyrgyzstan, acting as Chief Engineer -- Deputy Director General. Amongst his peers, Mr. Bulyonkov is recognized as a rare metals and radioactive processing specialist.
Robert Mackay, President and CEO of Stans Energy stated, "The completion of this transaction is a crucial step towards achieving our goal of becoming a near term producer of Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREEs). We are very fortunate to add Mr. L. Bulyonkov to our team as our Head of Operations at KRP and we are confident that he will be able to use his extensive experience to efficiently reestablish a rare earth production line at the Facility. Mr. L Bulyonkov has already initiated plans for design and capacity upgrades to KRP."
KRP Details and Historical Production Flow Sheet
For almost three decades the KCMP Rare Earth Processing Complex produced 80% of the former Soviet Union's RE products. The facilities and the rail terminal were used to produce and transport materials, equipment, chemicals and final product to and from markets when the Kutessay II RE mine was last in production. The Kutessay II mine is now 100% owned by Stans Energy. When the KCMP Rare Earth Processing Plant was last in operation the processing facilities comprised of four individual plants that were part of a much larger industrial complex.
Plant 1
Plant 1 has been decommissioned and will not be used in Stans' new design. This is because much of the past technology used in Plant 1 would not be used today, as newer Sorption technology has proved to be more efficient and less damaging to the environment when removing radioactive materials.
Historically, RE feed from the Kutessay II mine was brought to Plant 1 to be refined into a new, higher grade concentrate. At this stage, the radioactivity was removed through roasting. Modern technologies have made this step redundant.
Plant 2
Plant 2 separated the mixed rare earth solution from Plant 1 and produced light rare earth (LRE) concentrate (La, Ce, Pr, Nd), middle rare earth (MRE) concentrate (Sm, Eu, Gd), heavy rare earth (HRE) concentrate (Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) and Yttrium Oxide (Y2O3). The equipment in Plant 2 is intact, but has been removed from the building and stored at a location 4 km away for security purposes. Stans intends to refurbish and reassemble Plant 2.
Plant 3
Plant 3 separated the MRE and HRE concentrates into final oxides, metals, alloys, nitrate solutions, and final oxides and metals of the LREEs Lanthanum (La) and Cerium (Ce). This Plant was where the various complexing, elutriation, and regeneration solutions were prepared. The process was carried out on a batch system where the conditions in the ion exchange columns (linear flow, solution, complexing, elutriating solution concentration solution, etc.) were specific for each REE. The Rare Earths were then precipitated as the oxalate (carbonate), filtered and washed and then dried and calcined to rare earth oxide (REO). The RE metal section involved the production of metals from the REOs through various electrical, induction and arc furnaces.
The Soviets never used Plant 3 to its full capacity as uses for HREEs were limited between 1965 and 1990. In the late 80s, the Soviets initiated plans for the Plant's expansion to process 3 to 4 times the amount at which it had previously operated. The industrial building expansion was completed when the Plant ended operations in 1991. Some new equipment was delivered to and stored on site but this equipment has not yet been installed.
The Plant continued to process small amounts of remaining HRE concentrate into final metals up until 2009. The last of its HREE concentrate and final products were sold in 2010. Plant 3 is in good working condition.
Plant 4
Plant 4 separated light rare earth concentrate from Plant 2 into individual rare earth oxides. Like Plant 2, much of the equipment from Plant 4 was removed and stored at a secure location. A feasibility study will determine whether Stans Energy will produce and sell light rare earth concentrate derived from Plant 2, or reassemble Plant 4 to produce final oxides.
Rail Terminal
The newly purchased rail terminal connects to the Central Asian Rail Network, which connects to Russia and all countries in Asia including China, Korea, and by ferry to Japan. The purchase of the Rail Terminal includes a gantry crane, two warehouses, two offices, and a weigh station. The land purchased with the rail terminal amounts to 143,500 m(2). The rail terminal is roughly 15 km from the KMCP Processing Plants by paved road, and is roughly 35 km away from the Kutessay II mine by paved road.
Equipment Inventory and Industrial Space
In an independent assessment of the equipment, it was determined that 97% of the equipment purchased which had been previously used for processing rare earths were in either good, or satisfactory operating condition, and only 3% required repair. Stans has published a full list of the inventory included in the purchase and can be found at www.stansenergy.com/rare-earth-processing/ . The total industrial space in Plants 2 and 3 totals 21,812 m(2).
Capacity Old & New
Previously, the entire REE processing facility operated at approximately 500 mt/annum of final rare earth product. During its time in operation, its capacity varied depending on which products were needed and at what purities. 120 different final rare earth products were produced, including oxides, metals and alloys of all lanthanides with purities up to 99.99%. In the late 80s, the Soviets initiated plans to expand the operating capacity to 1500 mt, but never finished the expansion. A feasibility study will determine the optimal scale at which to bring Kutessay II back into production.
Stans Energy has engaged the Russian Institutes that initially designed and built KCMP to help redesign and refurbish the Facilities to create a new and more efficient source of rare earth supply. New technologies and solvents that were unavailable during the Soviet era will be tested in an effort to further improve the Plant's efficiency.
SOURCE: Stans Energy Corp.
Follow Research on the Only Active Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility Outside of China
Sunday, June 5, 2011
EZ Wealth Solution Pays Out 1 Million Dollars In Commissions!
On Aug. 20, 2009 we witnessed a very rare accomplishment in this industry! EZWealthSolution.com has just reached the One Million Dollar Mark in Sales, and it also means they hit the One Million Dollar Mark in Commissions Paid because EZ Wealth Solution pays out a full 100% on all sales.
Less than 1% of Home Based Business Opportunities ever reach this milestone because as most of us know they never seem to ever stick around long enough
or their compensation plan is not geared towards their Associates but rather towards lining the pockets of the company owners! With a 100% payout, there
is no guessing who the EZ Wealth Solution Compensation Plan is geared towards!
When asked why he was paying out a full 100%, Ron Walsh the CEO & Founder
of EZ Wealth Solution was quoted as saying;
"I just want to see people make money. I have been in this industry for
over 15 years and I know from experience, that most programs/pay plans
are not designed with the average person in mind. They are
designed to fill the pockets of the program owners."
"I got so tired of working programs that would last no more than 6 months
or the pay plan was just another cookie-cutter script that we’ve all seen
fail time and time again. That’s why I stopped working every program I was involved with, and in May of 2007 I started putting EZ Wealth Solution
together."
"I knew that I did not want to be like everyone else out there and use
one of those cookie-cutter scripts that was destined for failure in 6
months to a year down the road, so I developed my own proprietary pay
plan, and I did it with my future Associates in mind."
"A lot of program owners say they want their people to make money, but
until they put their money where their mouth is, it’s just more hot air,
and people are getting tired of this. People just want a way to make
money online, and I just want to see people make money! This is why
EZ Wealth Solution with a 100% payout is the perfect match for
anyone wanting to make money online!"
"We have many Associates who are making $1,000 or more a month
starting their very first month! We have Associates who are making
$5,000 a month! We also have many hard working Associates who have
already or are on pace to make over $100,000 their first year in the
business, and all they ever have to pay in Admin Fees to the company
is $10 a month!"
"That’s all great, but what gives me the most satisfaction is when I
hear from someone who has lost thousands of dollars online, and they
are close to tears when they thank me for putting EZ Wealth Solution
together because this is the first time they have ever made any money
online. I have all I can do not to shed a few tears myself when I hear
such heart warming stories. It just makes me feel good inside."
"I want everyone to know the first Million Dollars in pay outs is just
the beginning for EZ Wealth Solution because now I have set my sights
on 2 Million Dollars, and the second Million will come faster that the
first!"
"Back when I first launched EZ Wealth Solution in December of 2007,
I did a video telling people about my background in the industry, and
how I built websites and wrote conference calls for several different
online business opportunities that combined went on to do millions of
dollars in sales, and how I had taken all that knowledge and all that
experience and poured it into EZ Wealth Solution, and I said that the
Millions of dollars in sales that we will do will be paid to our
EZ Wealth Associates!"
"When I first did that video I’m sure there were people who said:
"Ya ya, I heard that story before." Well,I wonder what they are saying
today! But that’s alright, with all the false promises they’ve been
fed by other people in the past, they may have had good reason to doubt
this seemingly "New Kid on the Block" promising to pay out Millions.
I harbor no ill feelings towards anyone who doubted me, they may have
missed out on the first Million, but they are more than welcome to join
us as we go for the second Million in payouts, and the third, and
the fourth!"
"I know there will be Millions more paid out because we have the pay
plan to do it, and we have one of the lowest start up costs in the
industry if not the lowest start up cost for a "Top Tier Program".
As I just finished saying; the Admin Fee is just $10 a month, and
with our "Pay It Forward System" at Package Level # 1, your sponsor is
going to pay your way into Package Level # 1 (a $47 value), if you agree
to Pay It Forward for one other person."
"So technically, someone can get started for as little as $10, and only
after they find their first person will they have to Pay It Forward $47.
This really opens us up to a global market. We have Associates from
just about every country there is, some I’ve never heard of before,
and they can leverage their way through our 5 Package Levels ranging
in price from; $47, $97, $247, $497, & $997."
"Our 5 Product Packages consists of Digital and Software Products. We
have over 700 of them divided into 5 Packages, and they come with complete
Resale Rights, and some even have Master Resale Rights where you can
re-brand them with your name as though you were the person who created
product. People can sell the products individually on their own or they
can sell them in Packages through the EZ Wealth Pay Plan (that’s where
the money is)!"
"We have made it really easy for people to sell the 5 Product Packages
through the EZ Wealth Pay Plan because when they pay their $10 monthly
Admin Fee we provide them with 3 professionally built websites to market,
a Member Center full of Advertising Tools and Marketing Tips, Ad Tracking
Software to track their online advertising, a How It Works Video Presentation where I close their sales for them, and we also have State-of-the-Art
Tracking Software to keep track of all their sales."
"Oh, did I mention that when someone makes a sale the company does
not handle the money! When a sale is made we simply connect the Reseller
with the Purchaser, and they work out a payment method between themselves!
This allows our Associates to get paid the very same day they make a sale, and they get to keep 100% of the money! How cool is that!"
Ron Walsh
CEO & Founder
EZ Wealth Solution
WOW! What else can I say that Mr. Walsh has not already said? EZ Wealth
Solution has been around now for 20 months (as of Aug. 2009), and it
looks like they are going to be around for many years to come as they
head for the 2 Million Dollar Mark in commissions paid.
After seeing their one-of-a-kind pay plan I have no doubt that the
EZ Wealth Solution pay plan is geared towards their Associates,
and the second Million in payouts will come even faster than the first
as the word starts to spread about this incredible Home Based Business
Opportunity!
If EZ Wealth Solution was not already on your radar, then it definitely
should be if you want to make money online, and you like the idea of a
100% payout that’s paid daily!
For more information about the
EZ Wealth Solution business opportunity visit
their website http://EZWealthSolution.com/?WebSuccess4U
to register for the "Free Tour", and they will
open their entire Member Center for you to see exactly what they have
to offer, and be sure to watch the How It Works Video Presentation
when you’re in there because EZ Wealth Solution is quickly emerging as
one of the best Home Based Business Opportunities on the Internet today!
System Tracking Corporate Directors Buying Shares of Their Own Stock
We Just Decrypted "Instant Messages"
on This U.S. Gov't Website...
And Now They Could Make
You Extraordinarily Wealthy...
Dear Reader,
Wall Street executives – those same fat cats that pulled in a record $20.8 billion in bonuses last year – are using an official U.S. government computer network to get even richer.
Their “scheme” involves a little-known Federal website... A place where officials and Wall Street executives can post special “instant messages” that often affect stock prices almost immediately.
Hedge fund managers, high net-worth individuals and Wall Street’s biggest players are using this intelligence to collect huge windfalls... before most of the general public has any clue what’s going on.
For instance...
February 10, 2010: Duncan Niederauer, a slick executive at a big financial firm, posts a new message on the website – indicating that a certain stock is likely to go on a big run. Seventy-five days later, he had personally made $251,000 thanks to this stock.
September 8, 2010: Thomas Mark, a director at a technology company, puts up a series of instant messages on the website, a signal that his company is poised to take off. Over the next five months, he raked in a total of $137,898.
And since 2009, Doug Bergeron, a very wealthy telecom executive, has posted no fewer than 15 personal messages on the site indicating moves in his company’s stock. In 2009 alone, he averaged a remarkable $2,785 per day thanks to this secret technique. That’s over $1 million for the year!
In fact, there are thousands of rich Wall Street executives making an extra six, seven, even eight figures per year thanks to the messages posted on this government website.
But here’s why I’m telling you about this today:
In the following presentation, I’m going to explain how we successfully decoded the “chatter” on this U.S. Federal website...
And why this intelligence could make you $2,374 in extra income each month, just like the Wall Street executives.
Harvard and Yale Study: Deciphering These Messages is “Extremely Profitable”
First, let me be very clear. There’s absolutely nothing illegal or even unethical about our accessing this Federal website.
In fact, recently-passed Public Law 107-204 and the Freedom of Information Act sanction it. The specific details are laid out in Section 403 of the 107-204 rule, as I’ll explain in a moment.
Last year alone, we decoded the messages from this website to give investors realistic shots at literally dozens of double and triple bagger gains.
That includes oversize returns of 256% in 28 days... 447% in 48 days... and a stunning 549% in just 65 days.
And experts agree... our success was no fluke.
According to one Wharton finance professor, using the messages on this website, investors could see “abnormal profits.”
A Harvard and Yale joint study confirmed it can be “extremely profitable” each time you decipher a message on this server.
Other financial publications have reported comparable findings, including The Journal of Finance... The Journal of Portfolio Management... and a Ph.D. study conducted at the London School of Economics.
Surprisingly, most people aren’t aware this government website even exists, let alone its full internet address or how to interpret the “instant messages.”
But don’t worry about that.
Because just moments from now we’ll send you the first round of fully decoded information. You’ll only need to make a simple transaction, then sit back and watch your portfolio grow.
If you’d followed this plan last year, you could have seen overall gains of up to 2,849%! That’s enough to turn a stake of just $2,500 into a $71,225 windfall.
However I must emphasize: This opportunity is time-sensitive.
Several executives have just posted new messages on the website that could make them – and you – rich. So if you decide to take advantage of the secret I’m about to reveal, you’ll want to move quickly.
Here’s the full story, so you can decide for yourself...
Accurate Stock “Forecasts” From the U.S. Gov’t
There’s nothing particularly odd about the wall of concrete barricades or the armed guards protecting the entrance to 100 F Street.
SECAfter all, security’s tight all over Washington, D.C., and especially at U.S. government buildings.
But what’s held inside that building is quite unusual...
A specialized computer network where business executives and government officials post hundreds of messages naming stocks that are highly likely to rise in the next few weeks.
You’ll find information posted by rich Wall Street executives from all types of industries... From tech and pharma stars... to beaten-down transportation companies... and, of course, the top financial firms.
And here’s the thing...
With the correct “ciphers” – which we’ve developed – you can crack the sensitive information on the computers inside that building wide open.
And with the right information, you can start making easy money – perhaps even thousands of dollars per month – just like these business executives. Let me show you how...
Instant Message #1:
High-Tech Firm Spills the Beans for 134% Gain
In the summer of 2010, executives from a small tech company, Akamai Technologies, began posting a series of unusual messages on the government server.
First it was Director David Kenny. He posted a brief message on August 4. An officer at Akamai, Paul Sagan, posted another message just two days later.
And a third Akamai employee, Director Peter Kight, sent another message on August 11.
Obviously something was going on.
So we set to work decoding the messages. And sure enough, they indicated that Akamai’s stock was about to go on a big move.
We immediately sent out the decoded information to our subscribers. And here’s what happened next:
Like clockwork, between August 17 and September 14, Akamai Technologies absolutely exploded – just as we expected.
Investors could have seen an easy 134% gain in just 28 days thanks to the special play we recommended. That would have more than doubled your money.
And those three executives who all posted messages in a couple days? Well, David Kenny made $330,500 dollars, Paul Sagan made $197,700 dollars and Peter Kight made $527,450 dollars – all in about a month.
I can show you how to do exactly what they’re doing. And while you may not make $500,000 a month, you could end up making at least $2,374 per month. All you need is the decoded information they’re sharing on this Federal website.
I’ll tell you how to get it in just a moment. But first let me give you a couple more examples.
Because executives from flashy internet companies like Akamai aren’t the only ones tipping off coming stock jumps...
Instant Message #2:
133% Return From “Bank Shares”
Banking stocks weren’t exactly a “hot commodity” in 2009. Investors were still scared stiff by the financial crisis.
Yet that’s just when we noticed an especially odd message posted on the government website by Stephen Steinour, the Chairman of Huntington Bancshares (HBAN).
Steinour’s message indicated that the company was likely to report some fantastic news.
It was a clear signal that, contrary to the mood of the day, this stock was about to skyrocket. And we shared that information with our readers on April 27.
Sure enough, the chart shows what happened next...
Stephen Steinour, the executive whose message we decoded, made an astounding $691,860 after posting his information.
But because we had the information, as well, we were able to hand our readers an easy 266% gain in just 14 days with our special play. That’s more than tripling your money – in two weeks!
No wonder our readers flooded us with emails...
"I bought 1,000 HBAN at $2.79 on 28 April and sold them today at $6.02” said Jeff Kramer. “I look forward to continuingthe fun!"
Bob Geary added, "Last Tuesday I bought HBAN for $3.Today I sold half of it for $6.02, so now I own free shares.Life is beautiful! Keep up the great work."
Pretty impressive, I think you’ll agree. Yet decoding these instant messages can return even bigger gains...
Instant Message #3:
No Gambling Required for 273% Gain
Around the same time we made a killing on Huntington Bancshares, we decrypted some more instant messages on the government website.
These were about Las Vegas Sands – the owner of The Venetian Hotel and Casino and the Sands Convention Center in Nevada.
And what really got our attention was the fellow who posted them. He was a real big wig ... billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
Obviously if a billionaire was getting involved, we knew this was going to be important.
It was late March when we first noticed his messages appearing on the government site. A flurry of more messages from other Las Vegas Sands executives quickly followed suit.
Look what happened almost immediately after we decoded the messages:
From April 6 to May 4, subscribers could have captured a 273% gain in less than 1 month on this Las Vegas hospitality company.
No wonder reader Pete Bataglia wrote in to tell us, “I made a hefty profit on the Las Vegas Sands recommendation. Thank you for your insight.”
And there were even bigger gains after that...
Adelson made an astounding$269 million dollars in a little over a year. That averages out to $689,309 a day.
Now I’m not saying you could make that much from these messages. Obviously, a billionaire has a leg up over the average investor.
But based on our experience using the information we’ve decoded, you could make an extra $2,374 every month.
How to Pull in a Six Figure “Salary” This Year
Why do I believe you can make $2,374 a month? Or even more?
Because that's how much you would have made by simply putting a flat $1,000 in every one of the special “instant message” plays we told our readers about last year.
It's that simple. All you do is follow these weekly moves and collect the cash.
But let’s say you wanted to step it up a bit... and put in $5,000 per recommendation.
You then would have banked, on average, $11,870 per month last year. That's the equivalent of a six-figure "salary" of $142,440 for the year.
And remember, you don’t have to do it by yourself...
We decode the message, send you all the important information and show you exactly how to profit.
So... what exactly are these “instant messages?”
And how can they predict safe returns of hundreds of percents in just a few months... sometimes even weeks?
Here’s the full story...
Why Try to Predict the Market,
When Insiders Can Do it for Us
Most people don’t know this, but it’s perfectly legal for insiders to buy their own company’s stock.
In fact, officers, directors and owners of publicly traded companies can buy and sell as much of their own company’s stock as they want.
After all, why would a high-level exec start or join a public company if they couldn’t share in its success?
There is, however, one catch. And it’s a big one...
They have to post their trade publicly with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) within 48 hours.
Once these big shots reveal their plans to buy up mass quantities of stock, investors usually start piling in over the following weeks and months.
After all, nobody knows the prospects of a company better than the people who run it. So if insiders are buying, it’s probably a good bet the stock is about to go up substantially.
But what we’ve uncovered – and decoded – is the website where these executives first post messages revealing when and where they are buying shares.
We can access these messages the instant they’re posted.
That way, we can get a crack at the biggest returns before any other investors have a clue what is going on...
Secure Only the Most Valuable Information
By decoding these messages, we can quietly “listen in” on the plans of insiders to see exactly what they are up to.
But turning that information into big winning stock picks, over and over again? That’s where the going can get tough...
For starters, there’s a massive amount of information posted on this website – as many as 57,000 “instant messages” a month.
That’s a whole lot of data for an average person to sift through. And to act quickly on? That would be nearly impossible – even in this digital age.
To make matters worse, a good portion of these messages are irrelevant, misleading, or just plain useless.
But that’s why what I’m going to share with you today is so valuable.
It’s a way to get only the important information – the kind that can hand you thousands of dollars a month... And a way to get it quickly – so you can take advantage before any other investors get the chance.
So how do you filter out the noise? How do you pinpoint the handful of messages with the greatest potential? The ones that could hand you huge immediate gains?
There’s really only way that makes sense.
You need an expert to guide you. An expert who can analyze the thousands of messages and select only the best picks and the highest-performing plays.
An expert such as my colleague Alexander Green.
Alex’s Secret Way to Beat the Market
My name is Jeff Yastine.
I’ve been in business journalism for over 17 years now, most recently as an anchor with “Nightly Business Report” on PBS.
I’ve had the privilege of interviewing leading business executives such as Sir Richard Branson, Michael Dell, Bill Gross and Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines.
Today I’m the Editorial Director of The Oxford Club, one of the world’s most powerful fellowships of private wealth seekers.
One of the reasons I joined The Oxford Club Group was the chance to work with experts like Alexander Green. He’s the Investment Director here at The Oxford Club.
You won’t find many men or women of Alexander’s talent or integrity on Wall Street. He walked away from a prestigious position with one of the country’s leading brokerage firms – retiring from Wall Street at only 43.
Since then, Alex has been featured on Oprah & Friends, CNBC, National Public Radio (NPR), Fox News and “The O'Reilly Factor.”
He’s authored three bestselling books, and he’s been written about in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes and MarketWatch recently wrote that Alex “has developed a dramatically successful record, expressed through several portfolios, since arriving (to The Oxford Club) in 2001.”
Dramatically successful indeed. Over that period – the past 10 years – Alex has led The Oxford Club to beat the total return on the Wilshire 5000 by 30-fold.
But here’s why I’m writing you today...
Alex is perhaps most proud of his remarkable Insider Alert service.
The Insider Alert is a VIP research service tailored to help regular people like you and me use the same moneymaking techniques of Wall Street insiders.
Because what Alex has discovered in more than 25 years as a professional money manager, advisor and editor is simply this...
There is no better way to beat the market than by tracking insider buying – and legally riding their coattails.
Experts Know It... History Proves It
Insider buying is easily one of the best indications that a stock is about to go up.
Peter Lynch, the most successful mutual fund manager of all time, agrees.
“There is no better tip-off to the probable success of a stock,” says Lynch.
Mark Hulbert, independent analyst and editor of the highly regarded Hulbert Financial Digest, says, “Investors can safely ignore [analyst] consensus and rely on [insider buying] alone.”
And Wall Street legend Marty Zweig, author of Winning on Wall Street, says, “you’ve got an edge” by following insiders.
The only problem is... Most people already know this. When insiders buy, stocks can go up very quickly and it can be easy to miss the big money.
But that’s why Alex felt it was so important to demystify this government website.
By finding out first exactly what insiders are doing – before the average investor has a clue – we have a distinct advantage over anybody else in the market.
And to make the most of this short window of opportunity, Alex often recommends both a stock and an options play.
With options, you can make far greater returns than what you'd see on the regular stock trade – often in just a fraction of the time.
In other words, if you chose to, you can make even more money using options – much faster than the regular stock play.
And if you’re not already familiar with options, don’t worry.
With The Insider Alert, we’ll tell you exactly how to buy and sell each of Alex’s recommendations... what to say to your broker... how to make the most money... and much more.
It’s all paying off in spades for current subscribers. Just take a look at some Alex’s recent insider plays...
* 235% gain in two months on Crown Castle...
* 410% gain in three-and-a-half months in Motorola...
* 244% gain in 67 days on 99 Cents Only...
* 145% gain in four months in Republic Services...
* 105% gain in one week on Inspire Pharmaceuticals...
* 147% gain in 37 days on Southern Copper...
* 221% gain in less than two months in Valeant Pharmaceuticals...
* 680% gain in 90 days on Seagate Technology...
* 646% gain in three months on The Hain Celestial Group...
* 652% gain in 70 days on Lorillard...
* And many MANY more.
Alex recommended each of these triple-digit winners to readers of his elite Insider Alert service.
He spent 16 years in the trenches on Wall Street, and another 11 years doing nothing but analyzing stocks and the businesses behind them.
He’s looked at literally tens of thousands of insider’s messages.
He knows what’s going to pan out. And, just as importantly, what won’t.
And the results, well... they speak for themselves.
Just look at the returns you could have seen from Alex’s recent “insider” calls...
Booked 163% in 43 Days
You probably already know that Barnes & Noble owns the nation's largest chain of bookstores. It also owns one of the web's most-visited websites, bn.com.
But you’re probably not aware of the insider activity that Alex noticed after it was posted on the secret government website last year...
What Alex told readers: In February of 2010, Alex wrote, “The real news concerning Barnes & Noble now is Ron Burkle. The billionaire loves the brand and has been a heavy buyer of the stock in recent weeks. He now owns over 19% of the company but has announced he intends to accumulate 37%, the same amount owned by Founder and CEO Leonard Riggio.”
What happened next: Alex issued a buy alert for Barnes & Noble on February 8. Just seven weeks later, on March 23, he told his readers to exit the play.
Fast “insider” gains: 163% in just 43 days.
And Alex was just getting started...
242% Returns in 28 Days
The proprietary analysis from Alex can hand you gains in all kinds of stocks. Oil... biotech... gold... even cigarettes.
Based in Greensboro, NC, Lorillard is America’s third-largest tobacco company. Their best known brands include Newport, Kent and Maverick.
And while Alex doesn’t advocate smoking, he won’t ignore a stock about to go through the roof...
What Alex told readers: In March of 2011, Alex wrote, “CEO Murray Kessler is certainly a fan of the company. He recently purchased 12,500 shares, an investment of almost $1 million, at just over $79 a share. He now owns 92,657 shares.”
What happened next: Alex issued a buy alert for Lorillard on March 1. Less than a month later, on March 29, he told his readers to exit the play.
Fast “insider” gains: 242% in 4 weeks.
You could have turned $2000 into $6840 with that one play.
Yet Alex has called even more impressive winners...
Stellar 256% Jump in 4 Weeks
Based in San Antonio, energy company NuStar has 8,417 miles of pipeline, 82 terminal facilities, four crude oil storage tank facilities and two asphalt refineries with a combined capacity of 104,000 barrels per day.
On December 22, 2009, Alex decoded a message about NuStar Director William Greehey. He immediately passed on the information to subscribers and gave the green light...
What Alex told readers: “Is NuStar about to shoot up? Director William Greehey thinks so. He recently invested over $5.2 million in the stock at just under $53 a share.”
What happened next: Alex issued his NuStar buy recommendation on December 22. Just 4 weeks later, on January 19, he told his readers to exit the play.
Fast “insider” gains: 256% in 28 days!
If you had placed just $1,000 in each of those three examples, you’d be sitting on $9,610 – all in less than two months.
If you had put $5,000 in each, you’d have $48,050. $10,000... $96,100!
With Alex guiding you every step of the way, raking in big gain after big gain from insider signals becomes almost... easy.
In fact, looking at these impressive results, you might even be wondering...
“Can’t I Just Do This Myself?”
Fact is, you probably could pick some “insider” winners if you really put your nose to the grindstone...
And if you spent about 10 hours per day analyzing the market, like Alex does – every day...
And if you’d done that for the past 25 years, as Alex has.
Then there’s the access to thousands of dollars in proprietary financial analysis programs, not to mention a full-time research staff.
How else would you wade through the more than 770 insider filings a day, or more than 16,950 filings a month, to find the one or two poised to soar?
But here’s the real problem...
By the time you’d found a winner... well... you’d be working with the same stale information that every other investor out there has.
With Alex’s proprietary system for decoding the messages posted on this website, it’s the only real way to get a leg up and make your move ahead of the crowd.
In other words: It’s the only way to make the big money usually reserved for those “in-the-know.”
I think you get the picture...
Why not leave the hard work to Alex... and simply enjoy the fruits of his research and experience?
And don’t worry. That doesn’t mean we’re going to keep you in the dark on Alex’s expert techniques for tracking down explosive insider plays.
Quite the opposite...
Inside Alex’s Proprietary Screening Program
Let’s go behind the curtain to see exactly how Alex interprets the insider messages – so you can take them to the bank.
Key Insider “Tip Off” #1 – Alex is looking for large six or seven figure transactions. He doesn’t put much weight in someone investing $30,000 or $50,000.
After all, top industry executives commonly make so much money, tens of thousands of dollars is simply not that big of a deal.
So Alex looks for insiders buying hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars worth of the stock. That’s a reliable sign that they’ve got plenty of their own “skin in the game.”
Key Insider “Tip Off” #2 – Alex keeps a keen eye out for what he calls “buying clusters.” Rather than just one “Lone Ranger” insider, he wants to see not only the top executives but also lower level officers and employees buying – and the more the merrier!
Alex knows that when you see a broad spectrum of people at the same company buying – including the lower level employees – it means a lot of insiders realize the stock is selling far below its intrinsic worth.
Key Insider “Tip Off” #3 – Another factor Alex weighs is the track record of the insider. Some have a great history... and others don’t.
For example, John Sculley drove Apple into the ground in 1993– and his insider shares plummeted, too. Meanwhile, guys such as Doug Bergeron, CEO of Veriphone, just keep making winning calls over and over again.
Key Insider “Tip Off” #4 – Perhaps the most critical factor Alex looks at is what he calls “the divergence indicator.”
It’s pretty typical to see insider buyers rush out of the woodwork when some bad (but not TOO bad) news comes out. The stock price plummets and the insiders gobble it up. And sometimes that’s even enough for the stock to head upward again.
But Alex is scanning for exactly the opposite situation.
Let’s say a stock’s hitting new HIGHS... yet there’s STILL insider buying. That turns out to be an even better signal. Just think about it...
If they are buying at $20 when they could have bought at $15 a few months ago...
Well, basically the insiders are saying, “Sure, the market realizes we are good – but they don’t know HOW good we really are.”
Those factors – and many many more – go into Alex’s decision on if, and when, to get into a play.
And remember, with Alex guiding you, successful recommendations and breathtaking gains could be yours for the taking just moments from now... for example...
Multiple Triple Baggers in Just Weeks
On November 16, 2009 Alex noticed L-3 Communications Director Robert Millard had recently purchased 10,000 shares, an investment of $731,400, and issued a “Buy” recommendation.
On January 11, Alex recommended his readers exit this play. They could have taken a 305% gain in 56 days.
Insider Alert reader, Owen Ulnis, didn’t seem disappointed to tell us: “I made 230% on L-3.Thank you.”
Subscriber Dr. Bob Wyatt did even better. “On L3 I’m up +411% (closed as you recommended with 411% gain today),” he wrote us.
Then there was Alex’s Bank of America play. Directors Robert Scully and Charles Holliday bought $491,000 – and $378,000 - worth of the stock in early November.
On the 15, Alex told his readers to get onboard. When Alex recommended his readers exit this play on January 17, they could have taken a 318% gain in just 63 days.
Insider Alert reader Rick Santos from Austin TX wrote to thank Alex: “Your recommendations are almost always right... your strategy has worked consistently well for me. For example with BKS, who can complain about a 125% gain or a 300% gain. Thanks for the GREAT work!”
And Alex was just getting started...
His next play was a company you certainly patronize – NYSE Euronext – better known as the New York Stock Exchange.
In mid-February, Alex saw that CEO Duncan Niederauer had just purchased 25,000 shares, an investment of more than $600,000. Alex’s additional filters indicated the time to get in was now, and he alerted his readers on February 22.
The company almost immediately began a relentless march upwards. When Alex issued his “Sell” recommendation on April 13, his Insider Alert readers could have booked a 447% gain in 50 days.
As you can see, Alex’s proven techniques rack up winner after winner, over and over again.
“Up about $3,200 today. Thanks,” writes Insider Alert reader, Jim Summers.
Elliot McNamara told us: “Sold HTE on October 23rd for $9.31 for a $666 profit, or 31% profit in two days.”
But Insider Alert reader, Joseph Kilwin, may have put it best: “Fantastic call on STX!! I made over 70%. You are right so much of the time I have all but stopped researching stocks on my own,” he said.
And now it’s time for YOU to get in on the action.
Here’s What You Get As a New Member...
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52 weeks of Alex's insider alerts.
A password to access members-only Insider Alert information online.
Profit protection with trailing stops.
An investment research service with an extraordinary track record.
Since 2005, a $1,000 investment in each Insider Alert recommendation would have netted $153,000, not including principal! That's an extra income of over $24,171 each year.
This should give you everything you need to make thousands of dollars to supplement your income, grow your retirement portfolio, or just enjoy some extra spending cash.
So how much could such a profit-generating service cost?
One year of Alex’s high-end research regularly costs $4,995... a terrific value when you consider the thousands of hours of research and analysis that go into producing these big winners...
Not to mention the oversized returns this service has produced year after year.
But you’re not going to pay even close to that.
If you accept this offer today, you can get an entire year of The Insider Alert for just $995.
That’s not a typo or misprint. If you decide to join right now, you'll save a whopping $4,000 off the regular price.
But please keep in mind, this limited time offer ends at midnight on Tuesday, June 7th.
Once the deadline passes, this offer goes off the table. In fact, you may never again have the chance to get Alex’s VIP research for under $1,000.
And when you join his Insider Alert service today, he has something very special for you.
An Advanced Session With Alex
Even with his specific recommendations leading you to winner after big winner, Alex believes an informed investor is a more successful investor.
That’s why at an exclusive resort in Florida, Alex recently met with an elite group of his readers.
The purpose? To brief them on the most advanced techniques of his Insider Alert strategy.
Few have ever been privy to this information. But fortunately, his hour-long session was recorded by a professional video production team.
Attendees paid thousands to travel to and attend this exclusive event.
Yet when you join The Insider Alert within 24 hours of reading this letter, you’ll get instant access to this priceless intelligence from Alex – as his gift to you.
And to remove any possible doubt about whether this research service is right for you...
Our Promise to You
Explosive short-term profits aren't for everyone. We understand that.
That's why The Oxford Club has agreed to give you 60 days to try out The Insider Alert.
Use this time to test out his service... paper trade each move if you like... and see if you aren’t completely blown away by the results.
If, after 60 days, you feel for any reason this isn’t for you... You can simply cancel your subscription for an immediate refund (less our customary 10% processing fee.)
There's absolutely no additional risk in trying it. Think about it...
If you’d joined Alex’s Insider Alert last year, you could have seen overall gains of up to 2,849% – enough to turn a stake of just $2,500 into a $71,225 windfall.
And you could have been among Insider Alert readers like Patrick Brown, who told us: “Thank you very much for your recent recommendation on Huntington Bancshares. I sold my position for a PROFIT of 396%.”
Yet Alex is planning on doing even better in the coming months.
And if for any reason The Insider Alert is not right for you in the end, you'll get your money back less the customary 10% processing fee.
I really can't imagine a better or fairer deal.
Simply click here to save $4,000 off the regular price of this VIP service... and get in on the coming wave of triple-digit winners.
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Sincerely,
Jeff Yastine
Editorial Director, The Oxford Club
May 2011
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on This U.S. Gov't Website...
And Now They Could Make
You Extraordinarily Wealthy...
Dear Reader,
Wall Street executives – those same fat cats that pulled in a record $20.8 billion in bonuses last year – are using an official U.S. government computer network to get even richer.
Their “scheme” involves a little-known Federal website... A place where officials and Wall Street executives can post special “instant messages” that often affect stock prices almost immediately.
Hedge fund managers, high net-worth individuals and Wall Street’s biggest players are using this intelligence to collect huge windfalls... before most of the general public has any clue what’s going on.
For instance...
February 10, 2010: Duncan Niederauer, a slick executive at a big financial firm, posts a new message on the website – indicating that a certain stock is likely to go on a big run. Seventy-five days later, he had personally made $251,000 thanks to this stock.
September 8, 2010: Thomas Mark, a director at a technology company, puts up a series of instant messages on the website, a signal that his company is poised to take off. Over the next five months, he raked in a total of $137,898.
And since 2009, Doug Bergeron, a very wealthy telecom executive, has posted no fewer than 15 personal messages on the site indicating moves in his company’s stock. In 2009 alone, he averaged a remarkable $2,785 per day thanks to this secret technique. That’s over $1 million for the year!
In fact, there are thousands of rich Wall Street executives making an extra six, seven, even eight figures per year thanks to the messages posted on this government website.
But here’s why I’m telling you about this today:
In the following presentation, I’m going to explain how we successfully decoded the “chatter” on this U.S. Federal website...
And why this intelligence could make you $2,374 in extra income each month, just like the Wall Street executives.
Harvard and Yale Study: Deciphering These Messages is “Extremely Profitable”
First, let me be very clear. There’s absolutely nothing illegal or even unethical about our accessing this Federal website.
In fact, recently-passed Public Law 107-204 and the Freedom of Information Act sanction it. The specific details are laid out in Section 403 of the 107-204 rule, as I’ll explain in a moment.
Last year alone, we decoded the messages from this website to give investors realistic shots at literally dozens of double and triple bagger gains.
That includes oversize returns of 256% in 28 days... 447% in 48 days... and a stunning 549% in just 65 days.
And experts agree... our success was no fluke.
According to one Wharton finance professor, using the messages on this website, investors could see “abnormal profits.”
A Harvard and Yale joint study confirmed it can be “extremely profitable” each time you decipher a message on this server.
Other financial publications have reported comparable findings, including The Journal of Finance... The Journal of Portfolio Management... and a Ph.D. study conducted at the London School of Economics.
Surprisingly, most people aren’t aware this government website even exists, let alone its full internet address or how to interpret the “instant messages.”
But don’t worry about that.
Because just moments from now we’ll send you the first round of fully decoded information. You’ll only need to make a simple transaction, then sit back and watch your portfolio grow.
If you’d followed this plan last year, you could have seen overall gains of up to 2,849%! That’s enough to turn a stake of just $2,500 into a $71,225 windfall.
However I must emphasize: This opportunity is time-sensitive.
Several executives have just posted new messages on the website that could make them – and you – rich. So if you decide to take advantage of the secret I’m about to reveal, you’ll want to move quickly.
Here’s the full story, so you can decide for yourself...
Accurate Stock “Forecasts” From the U.S. Gov’t
There’s nothing particularly odd about the wall of concrete barricades or the armed guards protecting the entrance to 100 F Street.
SECAfter all, security’s tight all over Washington, D.C., and especially at U.S. government buildings.
But what’s held inside that building is quite unusual...
A specialized computer network where business executives and government officials post hundreds of messages naming stocks that are highly likely to rise in the next few weeks.
You’ll find information posted by rich Wall Street executives from all types of industries... From tech and pharma stars... to beaten-down transportation companies... and, of course, the top financial firms.
And here’s the thing...
With the correct “ciphers” – which we’ve developed – you can crack the sensitive information on the computers inside that building wide open.
And with the right information, you can start making easy money – perhaps even thousands of dollars per month – just like these business executives. Let me show you how...
Instant Message #1:
High-Tech Firm Spills the Beans for 134% Gain
In the summer of 2010, executives from a small tech company, Akamai Technologies, began posting a series of unusual messages on the government server.
First it was Director David Kenny. He posted a brief message on August 4. An officer at Akamai, Paul Sagan, posted another message just two days later.
And a third Akamai employee, Director Peter Kight, sent another message on August 11.
Obviously something was going on.
So we set to work decoding the messages. And sure enough, they indicated that Akamai’s stock was about to go on a big move.
We immediately sent out the decoded information to our subscribers. And here’s what happened next:
Like clockwork, between August 17 and September 14, Akamai Technologies absolutely exploded – just as we expected.
Investors could have seen an easy 134% gain in just 28 days thanks to the special play we recommended. That would have more than doubled your money.
And those three executives who all posted messages in a couple days? Well, David Kenny made $330,500 dollars, Paul Sagan made $197,700 dollars and Peter Kight made $527,450 dollars – all in about a month.
I can show you how to do exactly what they’re doing. And while you may not make $500,000 a month, you could end up making at least $2,374 per month. All you need is the decoded information they’re sharing on this Federal website.
I’ll tell you how to get it in just a moment. But first let me give you a couple more examples.
Because executives from flashy internet companies like Akamai aren’t the only ones tipping off coming stock jumps...
Instant Message #2:
133% Return From “Bank Shares”
Banking stocks weren’t exactly a “hot commodity” in 2009. Investors were still scared stiff by the financial crisis.
Yet that’s just when we noticed an especially odd message posted on the government website by Stephen Steinour, the Chairman of Huntington Bancshares (HBAN).
Steinour’s message indicated that the company was likely to report some fantastic news.
It was a clear signal that, contrary to the mood of the day, this stock was about to skyrocket. And we shared that information with our readers on April 27.
Sure enough, the chart shows what happened next...
Stephen Steinour, the executive whose message we decoded, made an astounding $691,860 after posting his information.
But because we had the information, as well, we were able to hand our readers an easy 266% gain in just 14 days with our special play. That’s more than tripling your money – in two weeks!
No wonder our readers flooded us with emails...
"I bought 1,000 HBAN at $2.79 on 28 April and sold them today at $6.02” said Jeff Kramer. “I look forward to continuingthe fun!"
Bob Geary added, "Last Tuesday I bought HBAN for $3.Today I sold half of it for $6.02, so now I own free shares.Life is beautiful! Keep up the great work."
Pretty impressive, I think you’ll agree. Yet decoding these instant messages can return even bigger gains...
Instant Message #3:
No Gambling Required for 273% Gain
Around the same time we made a killing on Huntington Bancshares, we decrypted some more instant messages on the government website.
These were about Las Vegas Sands – the owner of The Venetian Hotel and Casino and the Sands Convention Center in Nevada.
And what really got our attention was the fellow who posted them. He was a real big wig ... billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
Obviously if a billionaire was getting involved, we knew this was going to be important.
It was late March when we first noticed his messages appearing on the government site. A flurry of more messages from other Las Vegas Sands executives quickly followed suit.
Look what happened almost immediately after we decoded the messages:
From April 6 to May 4, subscribers could have captured a 273% gain in less than 1 month on this Las Vegas hospitality company.
No wonder reader Pete Bataglia wrote in to tell us, “I made a hefty profit on the Las Vegas Sands recommendation. Thank you for your insight.”
And there were even bigger gains after that...
Adelson made an astounding$269 million dollars in a little over a year. That averages out to $689,309 a day.
Now I’m not saying you could make that much from these messages. Obviously, a billionaire has a leg up over the average investor.
But based on our experience using the information we’ve decoded, you could make an extra $2,374 every month.
How to Pull in a Six Figure “Salary” This Year
Why do I believe you can make $2,374 a month? Or even more?
Because that's how much you would have made by simply putting a flat $1,000 in every one of the special “instant message” plays we told our readers about last year.
It's that simple. All you do is follow these weekly moves and collect the cash.
But let’s say you wanted to step it up a bit... and put in $5,000 per recommendation.
You then would have banked, on average, $11,870 per month last year. That's the equivalent of a six-figure "salary" of $142,440 for the year.
And remember, you don’t have to do it by yourself...
We decode the message, send you all the important information and show you exactly how to profit.
So... what exactly are these “instant messages?”
And how can they predict safe returns of hundreds of percents in just a few months... sometimes even weeks?
Here’s the full story...
Why Try to Predict the Market,
When Insiders Can Do it for Us
Most people don’t know this, but it’s perfectly legal for insiders to buy their own company’s stock.
In fact, officers, directors and owners of publicly traded companies can buy and sell as much of their own company’s stock as they want.
After all, why would a high-level exec start or join a public company if they couldn’t share in its success?
There is, however, one catch. And it’s a big one...
They have to post their trade publicly with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) within 48 hours.
Once these big shots reveal their plans to buy up mass quantities of stock, investors usually start piling in over the following weeks and months.
After all, nobody knows the prospects of a company better than the people who run it. So if insiders are buying, it’s probably a good bet the stock is about to go up substantially.
But what we’ve uncovered – and decoded – is the website where these executives first post messages revealing when and where they are buying shares.
We can access these messages the instant they’re posted.
That way, we can get a crack at the biggest returns before any other investors have a clue what is going on...
Secure Only the Most Valuable Information
By decoding these messages, we can quietly “listen in” on the plans of insiders to see exactly what they are up to.
But turning that information into big winning stock picks, over and over again? That’s where the going can get tough...
For starters, there’s a massive amount of information posted on this website – as many as 57,000 “instant messages” a month.
That’s a whole lot of data for an average person to sift through. And to act quickly on? That would be nearly impossible – even in this digital age.
To make matters worse, a good portion of these messages are irrelevant, misleading, or just plain useless.
But that’s why what I’m going to share with you today is so valuable.
It’s a way to get only the important information – the kind that can hand you thousands of dollars a month... And a way to get it quickly – so you can take advantage before any other investors get the chance.
So how do you filter out the noise? How do you pinpoint the handful of messages with the greatest potential? The ones that could hand you huge immediate gains?
There’s really only way that makes sense.
You need an expert to guide you. An expert who can analyze the thousands of messages and select only the best picks and the highest-performing plays.
An expert such as my colleague Alexander Green.
Alex’s Secret Way to Beat the Market
My name is Jeff Yastine.
I’ve been in business journalism for over 17 years now, most recently as an anchor with “Nightly Business Report” on PBS.
I’ve had the privilege of interviewing leading business executives such as Sir Richard Branson, Michael Dell, Bill Gross and Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines.
Today I’m the Editorial Director of The Oxford Club, one of the world’s most powerful fellowships of private wealth seekers.
One of the reasons I joined The Oxford Club Group was the chance to work with experts like Alexander Green. He’s the Investment Director here at The Oxford Club.
You won’t find many men or women of Alexander’s talent or integrity on Wall Street. He walked away from a prestigious position with one of the country’s leading brokerage firms – retiring from Wall Street at only 43.
Since then, Alex has been featured on Oprah & Friends, CNBC, National Public Radio (NPR), Fox News and “The O'Reilly Factor.”
He’s authored three bestselling books, and he’s been written about in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Forbes and MarketWatch recently wrote that Alex “has developed a dramatically successful record, expressed through several portfolios, since arriving (to The Oxford Club) in 2001.”
Dramatically successful indeed. Over that period – the past 10 years – Alex has led The Oxford Club to beat the total return on the Wilshire 5000 by 30-fold.
But here’s why I’m writing you today...
Alex is perhaps most proud of his remarkable Insider Alert service.
The Insider Alert is a VIP research service tailored to help regular people like you and me use the same moneymaking techniques of Wall Street insiders.
Because what Alex has discovered in more than 25 years as a professional money manager, advisor and editor is simply this...
There is no better way to beat the market than by tracking insider buying – and legally riding their coattails.
Experts Know It... History Proves It
Insider buying is easily one of the best indications that a stock is about to go up.
Peter Lynch, the most successful mutual fund manager of all time, agrees.
“There is no better tip-off to the probable success of a stock,” says Lynch.
Mark Hulbert, independent analyst and editor of the highly regarded Hulbert Financial Digest, says, “Investors can safely ignore [analyst] consensus and rely on [insider buying] alone.”
And Wall Street legend Marty Zweig, author of Winning on Wall Street, says, “you’ve got an edge” by following insiders.
The only problem is... Most people already know this. When insiders buy, stocks can go up very quickly and it can be easy to miss the big money.
But that’s why Alex felt it was so important to demystify this government website.
By finding out first exactly what insiders are doing – before the average investor has a clue – we have a distinct advantage over anybody else in the market.
And to make the most of this short window of opportunity, Alex often recommends both a stock and an options play.
With options, you can make far greater returns than what you'd see on the regular stock trade – often in just a fraction of the time.
In other words, if you chose to, you can make even more money using options – much faster than the regular stock play.
And if you’re not already familiar with options, don’t worry.
With The Insider Alert, we’ll tell you exactly how to buy and sell each of Alex’s recommendations... what to say to your broker... how to make the most money... and much more.
It’s all paying off in spades for current subscribers. Just take a look at some Alex’s recent insider plays...
* 235% gain in two months on Crown Castle...
* 410% gain in three-and-a-half months in Motorola...
* 244% gain in 67 days on 99 Cents Only...
* 145% gain in four months in Republic Services...
* 105% gain in one week on Inspire Pharmaceuticals...
* 147% gain in 37 days on Southern Copper...
* 221% gain in less than two months in Valeant Pharmaceuticals...
* 680% gain in 90 days on Seagate Technology...
* 646% gain in three months on The Hain Celestial Group...
* 652% gain in 70 days on Lorillard...
* And many MANY more.
Alex recommended each of these triple-digit winners to readers of his elite Insider Alert service.
He spent 16 years in the trenches on Wall Street, and another 11 years doing nothing but analyzing stocks and the businesses behind them.
He’s looked at literally tens of thousands of insider’s messages.
He knows what’s going to pan out. And, just as importantly, what won’t.
And the results, well... they speak for themselves.
Just look at the returns you could have seen from Alex’s recent “insider” calls...
Booked 163% in 43 Days
You probably already know that Barnes & Noble owns the nation's largest chain of bookstores. It also owns one of the web's most-visited websites, bn.com.
But you’re probably not aware of the insider activity that Alex noticed after it was posted on the secret government website last year...
What Alex told readers: In February of 2010, Alex wrote, “The real news concerning Barnes & Noble now is Ron Burkle. The billionaire loves the brand and has been a heavy buyer of the stock in recent weeks. He now owns over 19% of the company but has announced he intends to accumulate 37%, the same amount owned by Founder and CEO Leonard Riggio.”
What happened next: Alex issued a buy alert for Barnes & Noble on February 8. Just seven weeks later, on March 23, he told his readers to exit the play.
Fast “insider” gains: 163% in just 43 days.
And Alex was just getting started...
242% Returns in 28 Days
The proprietary analysis from Alex can hand you gains in all kinds of stocks. Oil... biotech... gold... even cigarettes.
Based in Greensboro, NC, Lorillard is America’s third-largest tobacco company. Their best known brands include Newport, Kent and Maverick.
And while Alex doesn’t advocate smoking, he won’t ignore a stock about to go through the roof...
What Alex told readers: In March of 2011, Alex wrote, “CEO Murray Kessler is certainly a fan of the company. He recently purchased 12,500 shares, an investment of almost $1 million, at just over $79 a share. He now owns 92,657 shares.”
What happened next: Alex issued a buy alert for Lorillard on March 1. Less than a month later, on March 29, he told his readers to exit the play.
Fast “insider” gains: 242% in 4 weeks.
You could have turned $2000 into $6840 with that one play.
Yet Alex has called even more impressive winners...
Stellar 256% Jump in 4 Weeks
Based in San Antonio, energy company NuStar has 8,417 miles of pipeline, 82 terminal facilities, four crude oil storage tank facilities and two asphalt refineries with a combined capacity of 104,000 barrels per day.
On December 22, 2009, Alex decoded a message about NuStar Director William Greehey. He immediately passed on the information to subscribers and gave the green light...
What Alex told readers: “Is NuStar about to shoot up? Director William Greehey thinks so. He recently invested over $5.2 million in the stock at just under $53 a share.”
What happened next: Alex issued his NuStar buy recommendation on December 22. Just 4 weeks later, on January 19, he told his readers to exit the play.
Fast “insider” gains: 256% in 28 days!
If you had placed just $1,000 in each of those three examples, you’d be sitting on $9,610 – all in less than two months.
If you had put $5,000 in each, you’d have $48,050. $10,000... $96,100!
With Alex guiding you every step of the way, raking in big gain after big gain from insider signals becomes almost... easy.
In fact, looking at these impressive results, you might even be wondering...
“Can’t I Just Do This Myself?”
Fact is, you probably could pick some “insider” winners if you really put your nose to the grindstone...
And if you spent about 10 hours per day analyzing the market, like Alex does – every day...
And if you’d done that for the past 25 years, as Alex has.
Then there’s the access to thousands of dollars in proprietary financial analysis programs, not to mention a full-time research staff.
How else would you wade through the more than 770 insider filings a day, or more than 16,950 filings a month, to find the one or two poised to soar?
But here’s the real problem...
By the time you’d found a winner... well... you’d be working with the same stale information that every other investor out there has.
With Alex’s proprietary system for decoding the messages posted on this website, it’s the only real way to get a leg up and make your move ahead of the crowd.
In other words: It’s the only way to make the big money usually reserved for those “in-the-know.”
I think you get the picture...
Why not leave the hard work to Alex... and simply enjoy the fruits of his research and experience?
And don’t worry. That doesn’t mean we’re going to keep you in the dark on Alex’s expert techniques for tracking down explosive insider plays.
Quite the opposite...
Inside Alex’s Proprietary Screening Program
Let’s go behind the curtain to see exactly how Alex interprets the insider messages – so you can take them to the bank.
Key Insider “Tip Off” #1 – Alex is looking for large six or seven figure transactions. He doesn’t put much weight in someone investing $30,000 or $50,000.
After all, top industry executives commonly make so much money, tens of thousands of dollars is simply not that big of a deal.
So Alex looks for insiders buying hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars worth of the stock. That’s a reliable sign that they’ve got plenty of their own “skin in the game.”
Key Insider “Tip Off” #2 – Alex keeps a keen eye out for what he calls “buying clusters.” Rather than just one “Lone Ranger” insider, he wants to see not only the top executives but also lower level officers and employees buying – and the more the merrier!
Alex knows that when you see a broad spectrum of people at the same company buying – including the lower level employees – it means a lot of insiders realize the stock is selling far below its intrinsic worth.
Key Insider “Tip Off” #3 – Another factor Alex weighs is the track record of the insider. Some have a great history... and others don’t.
For example, John Sculley drove Apple into the ground in 1993– and his insider shares plummeted, too. Meanwhile, guys such as Doug Bergeron, CEO of Veriphone, just keep making winning calls over and over again.
Key Insider “Tip Off” #4 – Perhaps the most critical factor Alex looks at is what he calls “the divergence indicator.”
It’s pretty typical to see insider buyers rush out of the woodwork when some bad (but not TOO bad) news comes out. The stock price plummets and the insiders gobble it up. And sometimes that’s even enough for the stock to head upward again.
But Alex is scanning for exactly the opposite situation.
Let’s say a stock’s hitting new HIGHS... yet there’s STILL insider buying. That turns out to be an even better signal. Just think about it...
If they are buying at $20 when they could have bought at $15 a few months ago...
Well, basically the insiders are saying, “Sure, the market realizes we are good – but they don’t know HOW good we really are.”
Those factors – and many many more – go into Alex’s decision on if, and when, to get into a play.
And remember, with Alex guiding you, successful recommendations and breathtaking gains could be yours for the taking just moments from now... for example...
Multiple Triple Baggers in Just Weeks
On November 16, 2009 Alex noticed L-3 Communications Director Robert Millard had recently purchased 10,000 shares, an investment of $731,400, and issued a “Buy” recommendation.
On January 11, Alex recommended his readers exit this play. They could have taken a 305% gain in 56 days.
Insider Alert reader, Owen Ulnis, didn’t seem disappointed to tell us: “I made 230% on L-3.Thank you.”
Subscriber Dr. Bob Wyatt did even better. “On L3 I’m up +411% (closed as you recommended with 411% gain today),” he wrote us.
Then there was Alex’s Bank of America play. Directors Robert Scully and Charles Holliday bought $491,000 – and $378,000 - worth of the stock in early November.
On the 15, Alex told his readers to get onboard. When Alex recommended his readers exit this play on January 17, they could have taken a 318% gain in just 63 days.
Insider Alert reader Rick Santos from Austin TX wrote to thank Alex: “Your recommendations are almost always right... your strategy has worked consistently well for me. For example with BKS, who can complain about a 125% gain or a 300% gain. Thanks for the GREAT work!”
And Alex was just getting started...
His next play was a company you certainly patronize – NYSE Euronext – better known as the New York Stock Exchange.
In mid-February, Alex saw that CEO Duncan Niederauer had just purchased 25,000 shares, an investment of more than $600,000. Alex’s additional filters indicated the time to get in was now, and he alerted his readers on February 22.
The company almost immediately began a relentless march upwards. When Alex issued his “Sell” recommendation on April 13, his Insider Alert readers could have booked a 447% gain in 50 days.
As you can see, Alex’s proven techniques rack up winner after winner, over and over again.
“Up about $3,200 today. Thanks,” writes Insider Alert reader, Jim Summers.
Elliot McNamara told us: “Sold HTE on October 23rd for $9.31 for a $666 profit, or 31% profit in two days.”
But Insider Alert reader, Joseph Kilwin, may have put it best: “Fantastic call on STX!! I made over 70%. You are right so much of the time I have all but stopped researching stocks on my own,” he said.
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Since 2005, a $1,000 investment in each Insider Alert recommendation would have netted $153,000, not including principal! That's an extra income of over $24,171 each year.
This should give you everything you need to make thousands of dollars to supplement your income, grow your retirement portfolio, or just enjoy some extra spending cash.
So how much could such a profit-generating service cost?
One year of Alex’s high-end research regularly costs $4,995... a terrific value when you consider the thousands of hours of research and analysis that go into producing these big winners...
Not to mention the oversized returns this service has produced year after year.
But you’re not going to pay even close to that.
If you accept this offer today, you can get an entire year of The Insider Alert for just $995.
That’s not a typo or misprint. If you decide to join right now, you'll save a whopping $4,000 off the regular price.
But please keep in mind, this limited time offer ends at midnight on Tuesday, June 7th.
Once the deadline passes, this offer goes off the table. In fact, you may never again have the chance to get Alex’s VIP research for under $1,000.
And when you join his Insider Alert service today, he has something very special for you.
An Advanced Session With Alex
Even with his specific recommendations leading you to winner after big winner, Alex believes an informed investor is a more successful investor.
That’s why at an exclusive resort in Florida, Alex recently met with an elite group of his readers.
The purpose? To brief them on the most advanced techniques of his Insider Alert strategy.
Few have ever been privy to this information. But fortunately, his hour-long session was recorded by a professional video production team.
Attendees paid thousands to travel to and attend this exclusive event.
Yet when you join The Insider Alert within 24 hours of reading this letter, you’ll get instant access to this priceless intelligence from Alex – as his gift to you.
And to remove any possible doubt about whether this research service is right for you...
Our Promise to You
Explosive short-term profits aren't for everyone. We understand that.
That's why The Oxford Club has agreed to give you 60 days to try out The Insider Alert.
Use this time to test out his service... paper trade each move if you like... and see if you aren’t completely blown away by the results.
If, after 60 days, you feel for any reason this isn’t for you... You can simply cancel your subscription for an immediate refund (less our customary 10% processing fee.)
There's absolutely no additional risk in trying it. Think about it...
If you’d joined Alex’s Insider Alert last year, you could have seen overall gains of up to 2,849% – enough to turn a stake of just $2,500 into a $71,225 windfall.
And you could have been among Insider Alert readers like Patrick Brown, who told us: “Thank you very much for your recent recommendation on Huntington Bancshares. I sold my position for a PROFIT of 396%.”
Yet Alex is planning on doing even better in the coming months.
And if for any reason The Insider Alert is not right for you in the end, you'll get your money back less the customary 10% processing fee.
I really can't imagine a better or fairer deal.
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Sincerely,
Jeff Yastine
Editorial Director, The Oxford Club
May 2011
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